Materials:  Hook: #8 4XL straight shank (I use Togen Streamer #28528) Thread: 70 d black and red (I prefer Ultra) Tail: White marabou, with black antron (Phentex) over...

Not to be confused with that other, surface, fly pattern with a similar name. This fly too offers a shock of pinkness with a wiggly tail, but is meant to be fished near the...

Marabou Clouser Hook - Mustad 34007, size #4. De-barb and sharpen. Thread - Fluorescent pink or Chartreuse Uni-thread. Body - Silver poly-braid wound on shank. Wing -...

  Neil's Euphausiid, a.k.a. the California Neil, has become a go-to beach fly pattern for many salmon anglers. Neil's Ghost is of that same woolly worm/woolly bugger...

In contrast to the stealthy allure of a sparsely tied fly on an intermediate sink-rate line, the plop of this weighted fly as it hits the water and its quick descent seems...

  Sadly, created as a better mouse trap for sea-run Cutthroat trout in saltwater estuaries, it was a bust. In those same waters, however, Coho (silver) Salmon loved it,...

A woodsy amalgamation of Haig-Brown's Steelhead Bee and Lee Wulff's series of dry-fly patterns, the Palmered Brown Bug presents a good silhouette on the surface. As well,...

Hook - #12, Mustad 94840 or equivalent, de-barbed and sharpened. Thread - Uni-thread, Fluorescent chartreuse or black or bright orange. Tail - Natural coloured deer body...

  Hook - Mustad 9672, or equivalent, size 6 or 8, de-barbed and sharpened. Thread - 1/0 Unithread, black. Tail - Glow-in-the-dark Flashabou, ten strands. Underbody -...

  Hook -- Mustad 3666 or equivalent, size #6. De-barb and sharpen. Thread -- Black Uni-thread. Tail -- Natural white Polar bear hair, sparse. Body -- Silver poly-braid...

Hook -- Eagle Claw 1197G (gold plated), size #8. Debarb and sharpen. Thread -- Fluorescent pink Uni-thread. Tail -- Pink Polar bear hair, sparse. Approximately same length...

Pistol Pete. Have you ever sat in a boat while your partner caught one nice fish after another while you got few or none? Are you a purist or would you ask to borrow one of...

Elk River Special Nymph Recipe

    Big fish eat little fish. In some Vancouver Island lakes nothing typifies that more than Cutthroat trout chasing down Kokanee for a calorie rich meal. Lakes with a run...

    Of the hundreds of “leech” fly patterns out there, this one ,too, mimics the slinky, undulating movement and drab colouration of the natural. The heavy copper bead and...

  The Egg Sucking Leech (ESL) fly pattern has been around for quite a few years now. It has taken on many variations and colour schemes. The fish attractive “hot spot”...

The Horner's Deer Hair Shrimp pattern is very effective on all salmonids.  Many folks enjoy shrimp as tasty morsels in a salad or topping a pizza. Game fish, too, relish...

This pattern is coupled with a floating fly line for those times when Pink salmon are milling about in a fairly tight group, in a localized beach area. A sunk fly will often...