Balloon Hammer Caddis The Balloon Hammer caddis is an egg laying version of Roman Moser’s Balloon Caddis. It is a cross between that fly and the Klinkhamer style. The fly is similar to the parent pattern except for the addition of an egg sac and the use of a curved
BRF Yellow Sally Back in the 90’s, Al Bowers, Paul Kurinec and I made many trips out West to fish the rivers in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. Most of the rivers we fished had a hatch of yellow stone flies called Yellow Sally. We found an interesting pattern for this
Atherton #5 John Atherton devised a series of 7 dry flies to match the flies hatching in waters he fished. He tied these flies not to replace patterns that were popular at the time like the Hendrickson. Red Quill, Adams, and Light Cahill but to better match the flies he
Atherton #2 While reading an article about fishing the Beaverkill by Mike Valla in the July/August issue of Eastern Fly Fishing he mentioned that two successful patterns he used were the Atherton No. 2 and No. 5 dry flies. Since these are tied in the classic Catskill style, and I
Waking Caddis Many times when caddis flies are on the water the trout will only take them if the are skittering on the surface. When this happens you’ll need a pattern that you can skate and add life like movement to the fly. I came up with a pattern that
