Hatches Magazine Fly Patterns

Hook: Size 4
Tail: Squirrel
Body: Gold tinsel, embossed gold tinsel
Throat: Squirrel
Wing: Squirrel to match tail, jungle cock wing feathers and jungle cock eye feathers
Head: Bright orange

Easy to tie, first I take a small amount of hair from the tail beginning(close to the cut), tie in and the I tie fasten the gold embossed tinsel. Next I tie in the gold tinsel, glue hook body and wrap tinsel over.
Next I wrap embossed tinsel reverse.
Tie wing hairs, then throat hair. I try to have the tail and wing hairs even, that is if you fold the wing it should be of equal lenght and the tail.
I then tie jungle cock wing feathers (I personally allways glue them after a few rounds of thread and let them dry) and then I fasten the jungle cock eye feathers, finish with a nice size head.

Hook - Mustad Model 94842 / Size 12
Thread - Purple Pearsall’s Gossamer Silk
Hackle - Golden Pheasant Tippets (dyed Hot Orange)
Abdomen - Purple Pearsall’s Gossamer Silk
Thorax - Two pieces of Peacock Herl (reinforced in a silk dubbing loop)

Note on the Golden Pheasant Tippet Fiber Hackle - I tyed it in while the tips were even had the tips facing out over the eye of the hook. I sized them so that they are roughly the length of the hook shank. The tippet fibers are tyed in using a distribution wrap (sort of like spinning deer hair). Once the body thorax are finished, the tippet fibers are pushed back towards the thorax with my thumb nail and a small silk thread head is formed to hold the tippet fibers backwards. The tippet fibers are somewhat stiffer than a typical soft hackle fibers, but still quite flexible. Once they are wet, they become quite flexible.

Hook: Tiemco 100, size 16
Wing: White Poly yarn
Tail: Grizzly Hackle
Body: Stripped Grizzly Hackle quill
Hackle: Grizzly
Thorax: Gray superfine

Materials are listed in order tied in.

Tie in wing and tail, then build a smooth underbody with thread.

Before winding the quill forward, put a bit of zap-a-gap on the body to make a more durable body.

hook- #2
thread- white
body-flat silver tinsel
rib-oval gold tinsel
wing-black bucktail over red bucktail over orange bucktail over yellow bucktail

hook: Daiichi 1530 #8
Danville Flymaster 6/0 Red
body:Uni-Mylar Silver, Uni French Gold
Wings:Tippets
tail:Bucktail Orange
hackle : Indian Cock Cape Dyed Orange

Variant of Silver Ally’s Shrimp with Davie McPhail
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpgKr7Go3kE

crystal flash tail
ultra wire/ antron body
hair wing
2mm foam head
grizzly/brown heavy hackle
bent hook used to get the tail below the film

follow recipie above

nutria hair/dubbing, swiss straw, snowshoe

NRS = Nutria, Rafia (i.e. natural or dyed swiss straw), Snowshoe.
I’ve replaced the traditional hard hackle with a kind of nutria dubbing collar because I like it and because of my Nutria Flytying RP. The fly floats very well.
These are great mayflies tied on #8 hooks (TMC Gamakatsu).
So… Tail: nutria guard hair; body: swiss straw; hackle: nutria collar made of strongly twisted nutria dubbing, then cross-winded around the snowshoe wing; wing: snowshoe.
This pattern works great as a spent. The “dry nutria collar” idea was developped by the Polish tier Mr Wysocki - especially in his spent mayflies.

hook: 10#
tail: black hen
body: peacock + flat silver tinsel
hackle: black hen
wings: duck

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Hook TNC 518 size 32 (12-32)
Thread Gordon Griffiths 14/0 grey
Shuck: micro Antron
body: small tan goose biot
Soft hackle: Partridge bronze tip body feather.

Simple soft hackle technique. Make sure that the shuck is no longer than the hook shank.