The Fly Box
This is the fly of the month.

Materials
Size 6 - natural bend wet fly hook
Yellow size 6/o thread
1 mm Spirit River foam
Zonker metal strip, brads or lead for weighting
Biots for tail and legs
Antennae material
Dirty yellow fine dubbing
Black plastic bead eyes
Wing burners for shaping wing pads


1.prepare 6+ weighted hook sets
2.prepare 6x 6 legs from biots (wet)
3.prepare two wing pads from burners
4.color foam strip with gold sharpie with black along back edge
5.wrap thread to bend and tie in foam
6.make two wraps of foam, secure and tie in pair of bio tails, secure with thread and glue
7.continue wrapping foam to mid shank
8.dub and cut off extra foam
9.secure 1st pair of legs with tips facing forward, glue
10.dub over legs, then tie in first wing pad
11.dub forward, tie in 2nd pair of legs, dub again, glue
12.advance dub forward and tie in 3rd pair of legs
13.secure 2nd wing case with tail of the foam wing case extended forward
15.small amount of dubbing, then secure eyes
16.fold foam to the rear to cover the eyes, final dub and finish securing thread

Fly Tyers Roundtable

In April Eli Gonzales treated us to a selection of some of his favorite patterns for steelhead and Stillwater trout that included a silver streamer, darter and Eli's version of the Serendipity. Eli recommended use of several of these patterns at the Greenbrier outing on May 14.

On May 19 Jeff Brubaker will demonstrate one of his favorite caddis emerger patterns. As always, the PVFF roundtable begins at 6:30pm.

In the interest of inter-club flytying activities, I will be demonstrating Gary LaFontaine's Mohawk attractor pattern at the AFA Flytying Roundtable on May 6. The AFA Roundtable is at Keystone Sporting Goods at the north end of Hagerstown. Their roundtable starts at 7pm. All tyers (both novice and experienced) are welcome to join us or the AFA club. Flytying materials are provided, all you need to bring is your basic tying tools and enthusiasm to learn.

Please contact Don Fine (301-371-5617) if you have questions or need additional information.

Fly Tyers reference

Frank Thompson and 261 other tyers providing 4796 patterns. Flytier's Page

Mossey Creek Fly Fishing (Va.) - Tying videos (Golden Retriever, Trow Minnow, Kreelex)

eHow - Tying videos

Hatches Magazine - Tying videos