Common Fly Patterns

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Hatch

Size

 Wings Hackle Body Tail
Adams (W/D) 10 - 22 grizzly hackle tips  brown and grizzly gray dubbing or muskrat brown and grizzly
Beaverkill (W/D) 10 - 12 curlew brown white/brown floss striped badger hackle
Beaverkill (female) 10 - 12 slate (light) brown gray dubbing yellow chenille butt gray mallard
Beetle deer hair 12 - 18 fluorescent yarn indicator black deer legs black deer hair  
Black midge 18 - 24 black black floss/ thread, silver rib
Blue Dun (W/D) 12 - 22 natural gray pale blue dun pale blue fur pale blue dun
Blue Quill W/D) 12 - 20 natural gray light dun stripped gray quill light blue hackle
Blue Winged Olive 14 - 20 dark blue dun hackle tips dark blue dun medium olive to brown olive dubbing dark blue dun
Caddis, Light Elk Hair 10 - 20 tan coastal deer or elk hair light brown or ginger tan/buff or yellow dubbing
Caddis, Dark Elk Hair 10 - 20 natural coastal deer or elk hair dun to black gray/green dubbing  
Cahill, Dark 10 - 18 wood duck breast brown/dark ginger muskrat or hare's fur dubbing wood duck flank or dark ginger hackle
Cahill, Light 10 - 18 wood duck breast light ginger cream dubbing, red fox belly fur wood duck flank or light ginger
Coachman (W/D) 10 - 14 white duck flight brown peacock herl, gold wire rib brown
Coachman-Royal (W/D) 10 - 14 white duck flight brown Peacock herl, red floss center, gold rib gold pheasant
Coffin Fly 8 - 12 yellow calf tail grizzly Ivory fur black skunk tail
Cowdung (W) 10 - 14 white dyed light brown brown hen olive floss, gold rib  
Ginger Quill/Gray Fox 12 - 14 light gray ginger Peacock quill (light) ginger
Grannom Caddis 12 - 14 dark dun/black black olive gray dark  
Green Drake 10 - 12 long lemon wood duck grizzly & light ginger pale yellow black skunk tail
Griffiths gnat 14 - 20   grizzly/ palmered peacock ribbed with fine gold wire  
Hare's Ear-Gold Rib nymph 10 - 20 quill wingcase mottled turkey hare's ear dubbing gray guard hairs
Hendrickson Dark Red Quill 12 - 18 woodduck mallard breast dark blue dun dark gray muskrat dark blue dun
Hendrickson Light 12 - 18 woodduck mallard breast medium blue dun light fox belly medium blue dun
March Brown Nymph 10 - 14 wingcase dark turkey mottled hen pulled flat over thorax medium brown ribbing dark brown floss 2 long pheasant tail fibers
March Brown (Dry/Wet) 12 - 14 woodduck mallard breast brown and grizzly tan poy or rabbit dubbing dark ginger
Montana Nymph 4 - 12 black chenille over yellow black black black goose biot split
Muddler Minnow  2 - 12 wing mottled turkey and squirrel tail spun natural deer for head & collar gold braid or flat tinsel mottled turkey
Pale Morning Dun PMD 14 - 20 medium dun hackle tips light dun pale yellow light dun hackle fibers
Pale Sulphur 14 - 20 light brown woodduck light brown or ginger pale olive orange light ginger
Pheasant Tail Nymph 10 - 20 pheasant tail fibers over peacock pheasant tail fiber tips pheasant tail fibers ribbed fine gold wire pheasant tail fiber tips
Red Fox Squirrel Nymph 4 - 16 thorax gray hare's ear dubbing red fox squirrel belly and gold antron/gold rib guard hairs fox squirrel
Serendipity 14 - 22 trimmed natural deer wingcase   any color twisted Z-lon  
Woolly Bugger 4 - 12 palmered black to white soft hackle black to white chenille gold rib black to white maribu
 
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