This week’s slate opens with the biggest thing in the box and works its way around. First is the Buford, tied by Kyle for AvidMax, an oversized bucktail-and-schlappen streamer on a 3/0 hook, the kind of fly you reach for when you want to move a big fish. Next comes a realistic baitfish from tiesflies, a size 12 tie with a squirrel zonker tail and a laser-dub head sealed under UV resin. From there the vise turns to the Deadman’s Drake from Fly Fish Food’s Madison Losee, a hackle-stacker dry born out of the Jackson Hole One Fly to match early-fall Hecuba hatches on the Snake, durable and high-floating enough to last a full day and doubling as a Green Drake platform. Last comes Miller’s Micro Meat, Russ Miller’s downsized streamer tied by Charlie Craven for Charlie’s Fly Box, a squirrel-strip pattern hiding a heavy tungsten bead that sinks it fast and lets you jig it through the column on a euro rig or a conventional swing.
Take your pick this week, the sizing might decide for you.
The Buford
Materials List
Hook: Umpqua X-Series XBG580 Black Beast – 3/0
Thread: Veevus GSP – white, 150 denier
Tail / body hackle: Whiting Farms Schlappen Bundles – 6 in. Plus, six feathers, natural
Body / collars: Hareline Large Northern Bucktail – cream
Flash: Hareline Polarflash – Rainbow Pearl
Head: spun bucktail (the cream Large Northern Bucktail above), trimmed to a blunt water-pushing head Adhesive: brush-on super glue
Realistic Baitfish
Materials List
Hook: Ahrex NS172 size 12
Thread: TheFlySmith 52D wood duck
Tail: Micro flash tan and a micro squirrel zonker
Body: Slf prism and golden brown ice dub
Head: Laser Dub
Resin: uv craft
Tools: TheFlySmith
Deadman’s Drake
Materials List
Hook: TMC 100SP-BL Dry Fly Hook — 10
Hook: TMC 100SP-BL Dry Fly Hook – 100 pack — 10
Thread: Semperfli Classic Waxed Thread – 12/0 — Pale Olive
Thread: Semperfli Classic Waxed Thread – 12/0 Bulk Spool — Pale Olive
Tail: Nature’s Spirit Moose Body Hair — Natural
Tail: Moose Body Hair
Body: MFC Special Sauce Dubbing — Green Drake
Body: MFC Special Sauce Dubbing — Skwala
Rib: Fulling Mill Ultra Dry Yarn — Fl. Chartreuse
Rib: EP Fibers — Yellow
Indicator: Fulling Mill Parapost Yarn — Fl. Pink
Indicator: Fulling Mill Parapost Yarn — Fl. Orange
Wing 1: MFC – High Rise Foam – 2mm — Skwala
Wing 1: MFC – High Rise Foam – 2mm — Smoke Grey
Wing 2: Whiting 100 Pack – Size Variety Value Pack — 10 / Grizzly
Wing 2: Whiting 100 Pack Dry Fly Hackle – White dyed Dark Dun – 10
Miller’s Micro Meat
Materials List
Hook: Umpqua XC 400
Thread: Magpie Materials 72d
Bead: 5mm Copper Jig Bomb
Body (rear): Peacock Ice Dub
Body (front): UV Tan Ice Dub
Wing: Olive Squirrel Strip
Resin: Solarez Bone Dry & Solarez Medium
Glue: Loctite Gel Control
Eyes: 1/8th Yellow 3d Holographic Eyes
