Fly Tying
Flies and Instructions
This great collection of recipes and instructions represents the hard work and dedication of MVFF members Bill “Woody” Woodward and the late Bob Cain. Enjoy!
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Fly of the Month
The May Fly of the Month is the Sugar Lump Emerger. You can often hook more rising fish during caddis and midge hatches with an emerger than with a high floating dry
Flybrary Project
The Flybrary Project, a way to share effective flies with fellow members & guests. Click the image above to get the details.
A - D
A Damsel Pattern
Adams Dry
Adams Fan Wing
Adams Parachute
Adams Spentwing
Aero Dry Winged Midge
Agent Orange
American March Brown Dry
Ammonite Nymph
Amy’s Ant
Antron Bug
AP Beaver
Backstabber Carp Fly
Baetis Cripple
Balloon Caddis
Balsa Bass Bugs and Poppers
Barr’s Copper John
Barr’s Meat Whistle
Barr’s Slumpbuster
Bead Head Brassie
Bead Head Gold Ribbed Hare’s Ear
Bead Head Pheasant Tail Soft Hackle
Bead Head San Juan Worm
Bill Miller Crawfish Pattern
Biot Body BWO Parachute
Bivisible Dry Fly
Black Ghost
Black Matuka
Black Nose Dace
Black Quill
Bluegill Bomber
Bluegill Trick-R-Treat
Bob’s Flashabou Nymph
Bronze Goddess
Brown Hackle Peacock Nymph
Bubble Boy Emerger
Buck’s Beetle
BWO Dry
BWO Nymph
Carey Special
Caribou Caddis
Chan’s Frostbite Chironomid
Chernobyl Ant Variant
Chubby Chernobyl
Chubby Muffin Variant
Cinder Worm
Cinnamon Skating Caddis
Cloud Emerger
Clouser Minnow
Clouser Swimming Nymph
Comparadun
Copper John
Crackleback Dry/Wet Fly
Crackleback Variant
Craven’s Jujubee Midge
Craven’s Wiggle Damsel
Cream Snowshoe Spinner
Crystal Caddis
Dahlberg’s Diver
Damsel Nymph Muddler
Dark Green Caddis Larva Nymph
Dark Hendrickson Nymph
Dead Caddis
Deep Sparkle Pupa
Deer Creek Caddis
Detached Body Lake Erie King
Dick’s Bug
Dry Skunk
Dyret Caddis
E - K
Eastern Beetle
Easy Extended Body Foam Hopper
Egg Sucking Leech
Elk Hair Caddis
Evil Weevil
Extended Body Light Cahill
Extended Body Mayfly
EZ Hex Nymph
EZ Stonefly Nymph
F Fly
Fairy Princess
Fish Skull Sculpin Bunny
Flashback Callibaetis
Flashback Wiggle Stone
Flashtail Whistler
Flashy Prism Steelhead Nymph
Flex-Floss Blood Worm
Flutterbug
Flying Ant
Foam Beetle
Fox Poopah
Fruit Cocktail Bass Bug
Galloup’s Ant Acid
Galloup’s Articulated Circus Streamer
Galloup’s Butch Caddis
Galloup’s Improved BWO Nymph
Gartside Gurgler
GFA Hopper
Giant Black Stonefly
Ginger Monitor
Goddard Caddis
Gold Ribbed Hare’s Ear
Golden Olive Sedge
Gonga Streamer
Gray Fox
Gray Scud
Green-Butt Skunk
Green Drake Emerger
Green Drake Nymph
Green Weenie
Grey Boy Spanflex Buzzer
Griffith’s Gnat
Half-n-Half
Hair Mouse
Hare’s Ear Flymph
Hare’s Ear Soft Hackle
Harrop Hairwing Green Drake
Haystack Emerger
Hendrickson
Hex Wiggle Nymph
Higa’s SOS
Hise’s Carp Nasty
Holy Grail Nymph
Home Invader Streamer
Hot Spot GHRE Nymph
Hotwired Prince Nymph
Howells’s Strawberry Blond Bugger
Inch Worm
Iris Caddis
Irish CDC Mayfly
Isonychia Emerger
Isonychia Nymph
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Japanese Beetle
Jumbo John
Katterman
Ken Lockwood Streamer
Ken’s Crazy Ant Modified
Kintner Boy
Klinkhammer Special
L - R
Lance Egan’s Rainbow Warrior
Lark and Grey Cripple
Lee Wulff Surface Stone Variant
Light Cahill Parachute
Light Cahill Wet
Li’l Foam Spider
Little Bit
Little Black Stonefly-Guide Style
Little Brown Trout Streamer
Little Green Stonefly
Little Stream Hopper
Little Yellow Sloan
Little Yellow Stonefly
Logie Low Water Salmon Fly
Mac’s Rock Worm
Mad River Special
Madam X
Marabou Muddler
March Brown Emerger
March Brown Soft Hackle
March Brown Spider
Matson’s Hard Ant
Matson’s Spidra
Mayfly Caddis Nymph
Mercer’s Missing Link
Mickey Finn
Mike’s Honey Ant
Mini Bugger
Minnow Deceiver
Mop Fly
Morristone Nymph
Mosquito Dry
Moss Carp Fly
Muddler Minnow
Murray’s Hellgrammite
No Name Steelhead Intruder
Nuke Egg
Nymph Skin Pupa
Olive Czech Nymph
Orange Fish Hawk
Orange Stimulator
Oscar
Parachute Hopper
Parasol Emerger
Peacock Soft Hackle
Partridge & Orange Soft Hackle
Peeping Caddis
Pettijean Emerger
Pheasant Tail Nymph Bead Head
Pheasant Tail Upright Nymph
Picket Pin
Pine Squirrel Streamer
Pike Red Devil
PM Caddis
Poison Tung
Polar Shrimp
POP Emerger
Predator
Prince Nymph
Prince Nymph Bead Head
Pseudo Stone
Pure Midge Larva
Quigley Cripple
Quill Gordon Nymph
Quill Gordon Wet
Rabid Prince
Rainy’s Foam Popper
Ray Charles Flashback Sowbug
Red Fox Squirrel Nymph
Rhyacophilia Caddis Larva
Royal Coachman Hairwing
Royal Wulff
Royal Wulff Cripple
RS-2
Rubber Leg Copper John
Rubber Legged Lime Crystal Stimulator
Rusty Rat Hairwing
S - Z
Sac Fry
San Juan Worm
Schmidt’s Articulated Marabou Spey Fly
Schmidt’s Caddis
Schmidt’s Clearwater Hex
Schmidt’s Egg
Schmidt’s Estaz PCP Nymph
Schmidt’s Pere Marquette River Caddis
Scotty’s McFly
Screaming Banshee
Sculpin w/Sculpin Helmet
Serendipity
Shakey Bealy
Shenk’s Letort Cricket
Silver Herron
Silver Tipped Ke-He
Simple Deer Hair Bass Bug
Slumpbuster
Smoke Jumper
Sneaky Pete
Spaatz
Sparkle Dunn
Sparkle Dun Emerger
Sparrow Nymph
Spent Gnat
Spent Partridge Caddis
Spent Partridge Caddis (No Hackle)
Split Case PMD
Spring Wiggler
Squirmy Wormy
Squirrelly Cuss
Squirrelly Nymph
Stenocron
Streaking Caddis
Sucker Spawn
Sugar Lump Emerger
Sugar Creek Crayfish
Sulphur Quill Thorax Dunn
Sweeney Todd Streamer
Teeny Nymph
Tenkara March Brown Emerger
The Blue Thunder
The Doc Spratley
The Muncher
The Pismire Softhackle Fly
The Professor
The Usual
Theo’s Danger Baby
Thread Ant
Thundercreek Minnow
Tom Thumb Double Humpy
Trico Spinner
Triple Wing Caddis
Tups Indispensable
Turck’s Tarantula
Two Bit Hooker
Ugly Stripper
Waterwisp Light Cahill
White Wulff
Winged Wet Fly
Winter Black Stonefly
Wood Duck Scud
Wonder Bugger
Woody’s Articulated Hellgrammite
Wool Head Sculpin
Woolly Bugger
Woolly Sculpin
Wooly Worm
X Caddis
Yellow Humpy
Yuk Bug
Zanesfield Striptease Bugger
Zebra Midge
Zebra Midgeling
Zoo Cougar
Zug Bug
Saltwater Flies
Eel Fly
Joe Brooks Blonde
Minnow Deceiver
Penny Pincher Prawn
Rhody Flatwing
Leadwing Coachman (video)
Fly Tying Resources
General Dimensions for Fly Tying
Thread, Bead & Wire Sizing Chart
Overhand Knot Weave
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