The Parachute Hopper: Hook #10-12 2xLong Dry Fly Thread: Brown 6/0 Body: 1 1/2 in Light Yellow Polypropylene Floating Yarn Wings: Mottled Turkey Feather Legs: Turkey Feather Fibers Tied Para-Post: Yellow Polypropylene Yarn Hackle: Grizzly I’m not very pleased with this fly and so I need to work on it. I …
After rooting around in a few of my favorite spots from last season I found a few has two or more varieties of Baetis(BWO) nymph. One of which stood out to me and as such I’ve tied essentially a Hare’s Ear nymph with a different color body and wing case. I tried to tie these as close as I …
I look at a large selection of flies with recipies on a variety of websites. In the links at the bottom of this site there are a few of the ones I frequent more often. I do use instruction but for the most part I read them once and try …
This is a fly that for some reason I haven’t seen tied by many people within the sites I visit. LaFontaine in Caddisflies really goes to great lengths with hours of underwater observation of this fly in action to explain why he believes its so functional. The answer lies within …
Thought I would show the mess that is my bench. I figure those who do this and do it feverishly probably have things strewn about. That can be me sometimes. Liz stuffed the whole pheasant when she was in High School. It’s good to have a dog that is rather good …
Caddis Fly Entomology Series Coming Soon After reading Hatches 2 I was alittle dissapointed that I chose to research Mayflies first. I guess while fishing this summer was too intent on the fish to notice much else, including what they were really doing and eating, that I didn’t see a single …
Tying to Imitate The following is a list of all the species of Mayfly that inhabit the waters around me and hopefully a comprehensive list of size and color for both surface dries and subsurface nymphs. The one major piece of advice that Hatches 2 presents is that the best …
Since starting my flyfishing journey in June I have since bought a wonderful rotary vise and spent quite sometime researching, watching (youtube.com), thinking about fly tying and how I can create my own flies mainly because of two reasons the first practical, Winona lacks any concept of a fly shop …
The Winona Fly Factory has been hard at work tying new and different flies for next season and this winter. Working on dry fly midges, white caddis, midge larva, deer emergers, ect. I will be posting those in the W.F.F. Flies page. This makes my winter tying total up to …
Hook: Dai-Riki 135 #16 Thread: White 6/0 Abdomen: Lt. Dun CDC Wrapped Forward Underwing: Final Wraps of CDC Wing: Deer Hair Tied Short Thorax: Olive Rabbit/Nymph Dubbing Notes: No Additional Weight, Just the bead. This is a pattern like many that I’ve been working on that I have not fished …
