Fly of the Month

This month’s fly is the Turck’s Tarantula. The Turck’s was created by a guide from Jackson Hole, Wyoming named Guy Turck. I first used this pattern 15 years ago when I started guiding. I remember exploring the pools of the...

The paradrake is this month’s fly. It is a drake imitation with a parachute hackle. This gives a low profile presentation as it rests in the film or slightly under water. The drake is the largest of all mayflies. It...

This month’s fly is the E/C Cutter Caddis.  E/C stands for emergent/cripple and as you can see from the photo it is quite differently constructed than most hair wing caddis.  It was created by Ralph Cutter who put a lot...

This month, there are two flies, but I will talk more about an insect than a fly. The insect is a green caddis called a Rhyacophila, but we just refer to it as a Green Rock Worm. This is the...

This month’s feature fly is the Red Fox Squirrel nymph. The “squirrel” nymph was created over 40 years ago by Dave Whitlock. It is what we call a suggestive pattern, that is, it doesn’t imitate anything totally, but a lot...

  The prince is possibly the most effective and widely used attractor nymph in the world. When a new dubbing material called Ice-dub from Hareline was introduced, Mike Mercier from The Fly Shop in California knew he had to use...

This month’s fly was created many years ago by a long time resident of Upper Dam, Wes Miller. Like many flies, it was developed to copy something observed in nature and tinkered with over time to get the final product....

Hook ­    -              94840 dry fly hook sizes 10-18 Thread ­                 color to match body, 8/0 Tail         -              Z-lon, antron, or tri-lobel yarn Body      -              antron, antron mix dubbing Wing      -              deer hair The X-Caddis gives...