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blog BY fish4budz ON September 4 - 0 COMMENTS
Skawla StoneFly
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recipe hook: york bend 12-18 thread: yellow uni 8/0 egg sac: red dubbing abdomen:yellow or chartuese dry fly dubbing wing: deer hair and polar flash legs: mini tarantuala legs antenna: same as legs hackle: brown   if you have small golden stones, also called skawla, these are choice. in different [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY fish4budz ON September 4 - 0 COMMENTS
Brown Drake Spinner
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recipe: hook: dry fly hook 10-14 thread: brown uni 8/0 tail: moose hair abdomen: brown turkey quill wing: Zlong or synthetic of your choice thorax: brown dry fly dubbing   awesome spinner for "Ranch" style, flat calm, waters. does not float well in moderate currents or faster. so a heavy hackled [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY fish4budz ON September 4 - 0 COMMENTS
Whites mayfly nymph
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recipe hook: 10-16 standard or 1x long nymph hook, weighted or bead head thread: tan uni 8/0 tail: mallard feather, wood duck abdomen: hares ear dubbing gills: ostrich hearl wrapped up abdomen back: turkey tail feather rib: copper wire or gold wire thorax: hares ear dubbing larger than abdomen. [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY fish4budz ON September 4 - 0 COMMENTS
San Juan worm
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recipe: hook: curved scud hook 12-18, weighted with copper wire thread: red uni 8/0 body: red chenille   use where you have red worms in the bank and make smaller versions for red midges  
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blog BY fish4budz ON September 4 - 1 COMMENTS
Sparkle Quill caddis
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recipe: hook:scud curve up eye 14-18 thread: 8/0 uni green abdomen: green holographic tinsel rib: green ulta wire vail: white or cream antron legs: grizzly hackle thorax: yellow or brown marabou   this is great caddis emerger, it is ment to be deep so it works well with a heavy stone fly or split [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY Jonathan Trzil ON September 4 - 0 COMMENTS
DH Hopper
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Recipe- Back:  Foam (optional color)  Under Body:  Foam (optional color) Wing:  Dear Hair and 8-10 pieces of flashbou Legs:  Pre-cut (optional color) Thread:  To match color of back Hook:  8-14 To make a cricket make it smaller and all black or dark drown This is a great pattern for slow moving [ READ MORE... ]
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Recipe- Wing:  White cdc with a small foam piece to prop the wing up. Tail:  White turkey quills Body:  Sulfur yellow dubbing Rid: Small silver tinsel bottom hackle:  White turkey quills This pattern is great before dusk when large PMD spinners are hitting the water.
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Recipe- Tail:  White microfibbets Body:  Dubbing (sulfur orange or sulfur yellow Post:  Poly yarn or white calf hair Hackle:  White rooster hackle This fly is great in low light times or if you have problems seeing.
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Recipe- Egg:  Three piece of red Mc Fly Foam and one small piece of white to make a blood spot. This pattern is very simple and very effective in all season, but most effective in the spring.
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blog BY Jonathan Trzil ON September 4 - 4 COMMENTS
Ant
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Recipe- Body:  Dubbing Thread:  Color to match dubbing Hackle:  To match dubbing This pattern sits high enough on the water that you can see it, but not so high it looks fake.  This pattern is great for small an large stream a like.