All flies are hand-tied locally in Snowmass, Colorado with the finest natural and synthetic materials available. Many of our patterns are custom tied to specifically match our local insects on the Roaring Fork, Frying Pan, Colorado, and Crystal Rivers; as well as their major tributaries. Call (505-506-7051) or Email (mattrosett@gmail.com) with the dates you plan on fishing a particular body of water and I will provide a list of appropriate fly suggestions. For those on a budget, flies may be selected to match your budget and get them to you in time for your fishing trip. Please allow 24-48 hours for a response. See below for sample patterns.
Pellet Fly
Green Drake Cripple
Pattern (size/color): Drake cripple (last chance/harrop’s). (1) #12-14 emerger hook; (2) green-ish/olive 8/0 thread; (3) mini olive marabou/quill (tail and body), if using quill use green z-lon instead for tail (4) small red copper wire; (5) green-ish dubbing; (6) brown/dun hackle feather; (7) deer hair.
Materials: (1) Hook: #12 Standard barbless dry fly hook; (2) 6-8 black moose fibers (stacked) for tail; (3) 3 mm green fly foam--cut with razor blade into long thin strips (about 0.3cm wide); (4) olive green ultra thread-70; (5) thin sewing needle; (6) 2-3 peacock strands; (7) grizzly hackle--appropriate sized, slightly longer than hook gap; (8) dun-colored Z-yarn.
Step 1—Body (A) Cut (with sharp razor) long piece of green thin (1.5mm) “fly foam.” *Try to cut as thin and as straight as possible; 1 strip (short-wise of piece of foam) will make 6-7 bodies. (B) Trim off small triangular section at end of foam with scissors. *This will make it easier to tie it in as tail. (C) Cut 5-7 moose hair fibers, remove loose hairs and fur, and run through the stacker to even them out. (D) Use sewing needle/end of safety pin, and secure in vise with pointed end facing away from vise jaws. (E) wrap green-colored 8/0 thread onto safety pin, starting close to point and wrap semi-loose backwards for approx. 1 cm. (F) Tie in moose tail body (Use pinch and twist technique), make 1-2 cm tail. (G) Wrap thread forward a few turn covering moose fibers, and building a nice thread base. *Do not cut moose hairs off yet, you will cut off at very end of this process. (H) Tie in foam strip to base of needle with the angled cut side directly on top of the needle. *Key here is to wrap thread loosely around foam making 4-5 circular body segments that are progressively larger than the previous one. **Wrap thread loosely around foam (and moose fibers), then next wrap a little tighter than first, then last one a little tighter than previous. Then wrap thread over needle and hair backward towards jaws 1-2 times, and make new body segment using same technique as before until body is complete. (I) whip finish 2 times over last body segment, cut thread off but keep a long piece—you will use this later to tighten and bend body, remove moose hair with finger nails—then pinch entire body tightly and carefully slide off of the needle. (J) Apply thin layer of Sally Hansen’s glue over body making sure to cover all thread, especially at the tail and at the end with the larger base. *Let dry several minutes and make next one.
Step 2—Fly (A) Wrap thread securely on hook about ½ of the way back. (B) Secure “ready-made” foam body to hook with several wraps. Leave some foam up front to bulk up body and trim of excess. (C) Tie in 2-3 strands of peacock and hackle. (D) Wrap peacock body—leave some room for the head—tapering thickest at back and slimmer toward front. (E) Wrap hackle around peacock forward and tie off. (F) Tie in dun-colored Z-yarn wing and trim off excess. (G) Build up head and finish off fly with half hitches and head cement.
Materials: 710-curved nymph #14 hook; Nickel beads (3.2 mm); small silver ultra wire; mini marabou olive; Choc brown ice dub; olive uni-thread 8/0; wild NM white wood duck fibers.
Steps:
1.) put bead on all hooks (x14) ahead of time.
2.) Tie in olive thread and wrap down bend of hook (pretty far down).
3.) Unwind silver wire, and tie in securely at back of hook
4.) Tie in 1 marabou piece by butt end facing back of hook, wrap thread forward
5.) Wrap marabou body (3-5 turns) and leave some room at head
6.) Wrap wire over marabou 4-6 times, leave segments
7.) Cut off both previous items (#5-6)
8.) Tie in several strands of wood duck on both sides of fly near head facing down.
9.) Wax thread and dub small head and pick out.
10.) 3 half hitches and super glue.
BWO Sparkle Dun
Materials: (1) 18-22 dry fly hook; (2) green/dun-colored 8/0 uni-thread; (3) TAIL: can use many different variations—Z-yarn (dun) & olive marabou strands, woodduck fibers, etc; (4) BODY: turkey quill (BWO-colored)/superfine dubbing (dark grey/green); (5) WING: cdc (grey-colored feathers); deer/elk hair (tied in sparse & forward); (6) HEAD: dubbing.
Flashtail Mini McFlyFoam Egg
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Materials: (1) Hook—egg hook, or curved nymph hook—barbless; size 14-20; (2) thread—MFC 240 fire orange 8/0 or appropriate color to match; (3) McFlyFoam—pick a color(s) or make multi-colored or yolk part; (4) Pearl flashabou (1 strand).
Steps: Unravel McFlyFoam into less dense strands. Cut piece of McFlyFoam about 1 inch long. Split it into 2 sections (2 one inch pieces). Pull both ends apart to stretch out to get less bulky. Wrap thread on hook starting from the eye and wrap back halfway. Build threadbase and tie in flash tail (if using). Then tie in first piece of foam with 2 pinch-and-twist thread wraps. Then pull up on yarn and make 1 jam wrap behind and 2 in front, then secure last wrap in tightly over yarn foam and gently but firmly twist foam underneath hook. Next tie in 2nd piece of foam directly on top of hook in exact same spot as previous piece. So now you have 1 piece on top and 1 piece on bottom of hook sandwiched in between without lots of bulk. Wrap thread forward and put some wraps near foam backwards to make tight. Cut bottom piece and then top piece. Apply a small dab of Sally Hansen's or similar high quality head cement to thread and eye. Tip—when trimming foam, twist and pull tightly to get a rounder shape.
Red BH Prince  Materials: (1) 6/0 rusty-brown colored thread; (2) lead free .015 wire; (3) hook (size 8—nymph barbless); (4) gold bead 5/32; (5) brown biots—x2 for tail; (6) peacock body blend of different types of dubbing: SLF peacock dubbing with mix of anton/hare’s ear in greenish color; (7) brown hackle/soft hackle (partridge); (8) medium gold French tinsel; (9) white/red biot wing x2. |
RS2
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| Shouldn't have eaten the RS2 |
1) 217 Traditional Nymph/emerger/curved hook for appropriate insect size; 2) olive/gray uni thread 8/0 (to match body); 3) gray—dun hackle filaments (x2), olive—wood duck (x3-4) fibers (yellow/white); 4) superfine dubbing (adams gray/olive green)—thinner body by using saliva instead of wax; 5) white “craft trim” yarn—unravel yarn in 3 pieces, then split each piece into 2 in order to make sparse wing.
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