slug fly

or maybe a leech, or sculpin

Spentwing

cdc-deer caddis

2 ingredients, size 14

Deer Hair Wooly - A Lafontaine pattern*

* These are from Gary LaFontaine's book "Trout Flies - Proven Patterns"

Steelhead Carey Special

Diving Caddis - A Lafontaine pattern*

Partridge and Orange Plus

this one has a very light dubbing of hare's mask (split tying thread).

Partridge & Green Soft Hackle

Partridge & Orange Soft Hackle

Orange Persall's silk thread, light hare's mask thorax, partridge hackle

This is a very old pattern, particularly without the thorax dubbing (body just silk thread - which darkens in the water to a reasonably good impression of many common nymphs. A popular Scottish pattern a couple centuries ago (some say described in print in 1496), it is both effective and poetic. The dubbed thorax is the American version, as tied by Sylvester Nemes and his sometimes student, Dave Hughes. (An Oregon author with a number of fine fishing and tying books.)

Starling & Olive soft hackle (variation)

body is Danville Olive thread, with black thread rib, starling hackle with some of the "slightly fluffy" fibers.

partridge hen and orange

this is a partridge and orange with a clipped brown hen hackle added to the abdomen, and a dun ostrich herl thorax

'boo tube fly

for those who can't get enough of the trout grass (bamboo), a tube fly with a bamboo tube.

tongue firmly in cheek

green brassie

green wire, gold wire

peacock herl

starling

Gladiator Steelhead fly

A fly pattern from the 1960's by Nick Gayeski for fishing the Klickitat in Washington state.

tail: red hackle
body: green silk floss
rib: peacock herl
throat: grizzly
wing: fox tail (originally silver fox)

Spade

Pattern: Bob Arnold, 1960's Washington State