Fly of the Month

This month's fly is the black version of the Gartside Soft Hackle streamer. Anyone who has used the standard white Gartside know how this fly swims in the water like a bait fish. Imagine how the black version would look...

This month's fly is the Purple Haze Klink. My favorite two flies to use during the summer small Brookie season are the Purple Haze and Rusty Klink. I combined the two to create this month's pattern. Often when you are...

This month's fly is the Paralep or Blue Quill C.D.C. Emerger. I first used this pattern a couple of years ago on a spring fishing trip to the Beaverkill River in the Catskills. I like to visit Dette's fly shop...

This month's fly is an old pattern called the Western Coachman. The Western Coachman was created by Buz Buswek of California in the early 1940's. Buz had been fishing all his life in the Sierra Nevada mountains which led him...

This month's fly is the Quimby Caddis created by Steve Marsters who lives on Quimby which is a small pond in the woods half way between Rangeley and Oquossoc. The pattern copies a large stillwater caddis that hatches on the...

This month's featured fly is the Barr Emerger created by John Barr of Colorado. It was created in 1975 to imitate emerging mayflies. It can be fished in the film as originally intended or as a nymph dropper. It can...

This month's fly is the Two Tone Zebra Midge. I first saw the fly in the book Dynamic Nymphing by George Daniels. I have used it with great success ever since. I have mostly done well with it in the...

This month's pattern is the CDC soft hackle Pheasant Tail. The soft hackle version of this most popular nymph pattern is perhaps one of the most versatile flies you can store in your flybox. It can imitate a wide range...

This month's fly is the CDC Deer Hair Caddis. This dry fly was created by Hans Weilenmann, a Dutch fly tyer. It uses a CDC feather to improve the floating ability of the standard deer hair caddis. The CDC also...