FLY TYING & FISHING RESOURCES

Fly Tying Instruction and Patterns

We have gathered years of fly tying instructional materials, patterns from the round tables. Check back to this section soon for new information.

TRF Round Table

by Gary Bonici

        A few years ago at one of our Frenchman fish outs, in the Snallygaster area, Sash Nakamoto while fishing from his boat was really socking it to the fish. I asked him what he was using, he showed me his fly, a Wakeling Swallow and gave me one. I took it home to copy it as best I could. I tied it a little different but it has been working for me very well at Frenchman, Davis, and it did real well at Hinkson Slough this last fish out.

 

Wakeling Swallow – Lucky's Version

Hook:        Size 14,12, and 10 - 1X                              Hackle:      Medium brown-olive saddle hackle

                 long nymph hook Mustad                                            or something in the brown or olive

                 3906B or Tiemco 3761                                               variety to match tail colors

Head:        Bead head size’s 2.3mm (3/32),                 Thread:      8/0 or 6/0 Black depending            

                 2.8mm (7/64), and 3.2mm (1/8)                                   on what size fly you tie

                 gold bead to go with the size                                 

                 fly you’re tying       

     

Tail:           Short marabou stubs from bottom

                 of hackle stem (brown-olive) or

                 something in the brown or olive variety

Abdomen  & Thorax:  Peacock herl

               

If you want to tie a few flies for local reservoirs like Frenchman or the upcoming Indian Creek Fish Out… come to the NDOW Building on May 17th at 6:30. There will be homemade brownies (or something Lisa makes), coffee, and some good tips on how to tie and strategies to use these flies. The bonus fly is a simple midge pupa that Ryan found in John Gierach’s book: Good Flies. This is becoming one of his favorite midge patterns for Frenchman’s; it also worked really good at Hinkson the first weekend of May.

 

Midge Pupa –

Hook:     Tiemco 200R sizes 16 to 22 or                                   Tail:        White poly yarn

              Mustad 94840 for 22 and smaller                               Rib:        Fine copper wire

Thread:   Brown 8/0                                                               Thorax:   Peacock herl

Body:      Brown turkey tail feather fibers                                Wing Case: White poly yarn

Useful Links

Videos

Check out Andy Burk's fly tying videos at http://www.youtube.com/burkfly. Andy has put together over 18 fly tying and fly fishing videos that feature some of the most popular patterns used in our area.

Check out our first Fly Tiers Roundtable sample video - you won't be sorry. The file is pretty large so you might want to right click and select save to disk. Our board members will be working to include presentations from past roundtables with some notable tiers like: Jack Dennis, Cal Bird and Richard Dickerson.

Radio:  

Go to FlyFishing.com: for an excellent series of interviews on flyfishing everywhere from the Gulf of Mexico to New Zealand.  The broadcasts are FREE and you can listen in over the Internet or by phone.