Uncle Tom Olive A previous FOM was the Uncle Tom Sulfur. This is the second fly that Tom showed us, a fly that he said was the only fly he used when the BWO’s were hatching. It is tied in a similar manner as the sulfur pattern he showed us
Found Link Kelly Galloup was looking for a pattern to represent a transitional dun, the stage between an emerging insect and the dun stage. He came up with a pattern that he calls the found link. He also found out that this pattern also could be used as a spinner
Mamu Spinner This pattern was originally designed to be used when large mayfly spinners were on the water. The fly could be used during a March Brown spinner fall and even during a brown drake spinner fall. By adjusting the size of the hook this fly could be used to
Moore’s Compara Buzz Fly Joe Moore of West Yellowstone, MT has came up with a pattern called the Moore’s Compara Buzz fly. He took the inspiration for this fly from Gary Lafontaine’s Buzz Ball fly ( a previous FOM) Joe added a compara dun wing and a sparse tail. He
Double Duck Caddis Kevin Compton of Performance Flies has developed this caddis pattern. He calls this pattern the Double Duck Caddis because it uses CDC feathers twice in the tying of this fly. Since it is tied with a double use of cdc it floats very well and doesn’t need
CDC Biot Emerger While doing some winter reading of several of my books on stream entomology I noticed the many of the nymphs shown in the photographs all seemed to have a rusty brown color. It didn’t matter what species of fly was shown, hendricksons, sulfurs, bwo’s, cahills, they all
Uncle Tom Sulfur Back in the 90’s fellow TU members Paul Kurinec, Bob Dunstan and I use to take a week long camping trip to fish the West Branch of the Delaware River and the main stem. One day at the campgrounds we met a plumber from Philadelphia who had
