Favorite Fly Patterns from Silverside Outfitters and Guide Service - Northwest Michigan's Finest Flyfishing

Favorite Fly Patterns

Steelhead and Salmon	All-Purpose	Trout
Simple Spey	PoxyBack Stone	Parachute Hex Dry
Steelhead Bugger	Rabbit Strip Hex	Deer Hair Spinner
Clown Egg	Rabbit Strip Leach	Mattress Thrasher
Krystal (Crystal) Egg	Pheasant Tail Nymph

1/24/05 NEW-PoxyBack Stone-small black stoneflies are the first important hatch of the season and are active Feb.-May. You will see the little stones crawling across the snow at streamside and adults flying on the warmer sunny afternoons. They are rather small but hatch in great enough numbers that both trout and steelhead will feed on them. The PoxyBack Stone has quite a few steps but isn't that difficult once you tie up a few.

Hook: Daiichi 1530 #8-12

Thread: 6/0 Black

Tails: Goose biots

Dubbing: black Awesome 'Possum(Wapsi)

Abdomen: Turkey biot

Wingcase: Pheasant tail w/ Dave's Flexament or Flex-Seal. Optional-Drop of Epoxy or Loon Hard Head.

Hackle: black Hen saddle

Thorax: black dubbing

Step 1: Start thread at hook eye and wind back to hook bend. A thread base will keep the completed fly from rolling on the hook shank or sliding back into the bend.

Step 2: Dub small ball of dubbing at bend of hook. This will keep biots separated.

Top: Turkey biot. Bottom: Goose biot. Use Goose biots for tails and Turkey for the abdomen. Turkey biots are longer and more delicate than goose biots. Soaking Turkey biots briefly in a damp paper towel before tying will make them easier to wrap and less likely to tear.

Step 3: Tie down 1 goose biot on each side of dubbing ball. Biot's have a natural curve, and you want the biot's to curve away from each other for the tail.

Step 4: Tie in 1 Turkey biot as shown.

Step 5: Dub a tapered under-body half way up the hook shank.

Step 6: Wrap biot forward over under-body as shown. Hackle pliers will make this easier.

Step 7: Tie in a section of Pheasant tail fibers that has been treated w/ Flex-Seal or Dave's Flexament.

Prepare a Hen saddle as shown.

Step 8: Tie in Hen saddle as shown with feather curving up.

Step 9: Dub a thorax

Step 10: Pull Hen saddle forward and tie off as shown.

Step 11: Pull Pheasant tail forward and tie off on top of Hen saddle.

Step 12(optional): Tie in 2 more Goose biot's at hook eye as shown(curving away from each other).

Step 13: Dub a small head over thread wraps at eye.

Loon Hard Head

Step 14(optional): Use a toothpick and apply a small drop of epoxy or Hard Head on top of Pheasant tail wingcase. Hard Head is easiest and does not require any mixing.

Finished PoxyBack Stone-side view.

Finished PoxyBack Stone-top view.