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Salmon Flies - Pacific Salmon

Alaskabou - Green

  • Hook - standard salmon streamer hook size 1/0
  • Thread - fl. fire orange floss
  • Wing - fl. green marabou with a few strands each of green flashabou and lime krystal flash all as a large collar surrounding hook
  • Hackle - white with as much base fluff as possible

Alaskan Polar Shrimp

  • Hook - standard salmon streamer hook sizes 2/0 - 6
  • Thread - fl. fire orange
  • Tail - hot orange hackle fibers
  • Rib - flat gold tinsel
  • Body - fl. fire orange chenille
  • Wing - white calftail with pearl flashabou
  • Hackle - Hot orange with as much base fluff as possible

Auckland Humpy

  • Hook - stainless steel saltwater hook size 4
  • Thread - black
  • Body - flat silver tinsel
  • Wing - pink over white bucktail - long
  • Eyes - silver bead chain

Black Jack

  • Hook - standard salmon streamer hook sizes 2/0 - 4
  • Thread - black
  • Body - black diamond braid (metallic braid tinsel)
  • Hackle - black marabou collar

Black Marabou

  • Hook - standard salmon streamer hook sizes 2 - 6
  • Thread - black
  • Tail - green flashabou, butts from body
  • Rib - black thread
  • Body - black green flashabou
  • Collar - silver flashabou over green flashabou

Comments - Replacing flashabou with krystal flash adds even more sparkle to the patter.

Bright Roe

  • Hook - standard salmon streamer hook sizes 1/0 - 6
  • Thread - orange
  • Rib - oval silver tinsel
  • Body - fl. fire-orange chenille
  • Wings - fl. fire-orange egg yarn and orange krystal flash

Bristol Bay Matuka

  • Hook - standard salmon streamer hook sizes 1/0 - 6
  • Thread - white
  • Rib - fine oval gold tinsel
  • Wing - Two yellow hackles enveloped by four red hackles (two on each side) all tied down matuka-style
  • Throat - red marabou
  • Hackle - orange and yellow hackle mixed

Comment - This pattern is more effective when fluorescent-dyed feathers are used.

Candlefish

  • Hook - stainless steel saltwater-lon with straight eye
  • Thread - black
  • Body - silver metallic braid
  • Wings -grey duck quills
  • Hackle - green over white bucktail topped with pearl flashabou

Christmas Tree

  • Hook - standard stainless steel saltwater hook 1/0 - 4
  • Thread - black
  • Tail - orange calf tail and orange krystal flash, long
  • Body - silver diamond braid (metallic braid tinsel)
  • Hackle - orange and yellow, mixed
  • Eyes - silver bead chain

Comet

  • Hook - standard salmon streamer hook sizes 2 - 6
  • Thread - white
  • Tail - orange calf tail and orange krystal flash, long
  • Body - silver diamond braid (metallic braid tinsel)
  • Hackle - orange and yellow, mixed
  • Eyes - silver bead chain

Coho Golden

  • Hook - stainless steel saltwater hook sizes 3/0 - 6
  • Thread - black
  • Tail - orange polar bear (or subtitute)
  • Body - flat silver tinsel
  • Wing - olive over white polar bear with jungle cock body feathers on each side
  • Topping - gold pheasant crest

Denali

  • Hook - standard salmon streamer hook sizes 2 - 6
  • Thread - black
  • Tail - red hackle fibers
  • Body - heavy copper wire
  • Wing - bucktail in layers: silver doctor blue on top and bottom orange in the middle
  • Thraot - yellow hackle

Flash Fly

  • Hook - stainless steel saltwater hook sizes 2 /0- 6
  • Thread - red
  • Tail - silver flashabou
  • Body - silver diamond braid (metallic braid tinsel)
  • Wing - silver over purple flashabou
  • Hackle - red

Glo Bug - Orange

  • Hook - stout glo bug hook sizes 4 - 8
  • Thread - fl orange single strand floss
  • Tail - flame (fire orange) glo bug yarn

Comments - Glo bug yarn is added to hook much in the same way that spun deer hair is added, usually in 3 ads. Alternatively, Krystal eggs (preformed eggs with bits of pearl flashabou protuding) can simply be super-glued onto the hook.

Green Weenie

  • Hook - standard salmon streamer hook sizes 2 - 8
  • Thread - fl. green floss
  • Tail - black calftail
  • Body - silver diamond braid (metallic braid tinsel)
  • Shoulder - fl. green chenille
  • Hackle - fl. green hackle
  • Eyes - silver bead chain

King's Shrimp

  • Hook - stainless steel saltwater hook sizes 4 - 12
  • Thread - fire-orange
  • Tail - orange bucktail long
  • Body - flat silver tinsel
  • Hackle - orange palmered
  • Shellback - bucktail orange

Midnight

  • Hook - stainless steel saltwater hook sizes 1 - 4
  • Thread - black
  • Tail - black bucktail
  • Rib - oval gold tinsel
  • Body - flat silver tinsel
  • Wing - black over white bucktail

Orange Boss

  • Hook - standard salmon streamer hook sizes 2 - 6
  • Thread - orange
  • Tag - flat silver tinsel
  • Tail - black calftail long
  • Rib - Oval silver tinsel
  • Body - orange chenille
  • Hackle - Black collar style
  • Eyes - silver bead chain

Comments - Black boss is the same except the body is black chenille.

Pink Passion

  • Hook - stainless steel saltwater hook sizes 1/0 - 4
  • Thread - fl. red
  • Body - pearl diamond braid (metallic braid tinsel)
  • Shoulder - fl. red chenille
  • Underhackle - pearl krystal flash
  • Hackle - fl. hot pink

Pixies Revenge

  • Hook - standard salmon streamer hook size 1/0
  • Thread - fl. fire-orange floss
  • Wing - white marabou withwith a little of both silver flashabou and red krystal flash all surrounding hook
  • Hackle - cerise with as much base fluff as possible

Popsicle

  • Hook - standard salmon streamer hook sizes 3/0 - 2
  • Thread - fire-orange
  • Tail - fl. orange marabou
  • Mid-hackle - cerise marabou
  • Hackle - purple hackle
  • Flash - gold, electric blue and purple flashabou added at tail and mid-hackle

Showgirl

  • Hook - standard salmon streamer hook size 1/0
  • Thread - fl. orange floss
  • Wing - cerise marabou, purple flashabou with red and pearl krystal flash-all as a large collar surrounding hook
  • Hackle - purple with as much base fluff as possible

Spade

  • Hook - standard salmon streamer hook sizes 1/0 - 6
  • Thread - black
  • Tail - natural dark deer hair
  • Body - black chenille
  • Hackle - grizzly collar