Newbury's Angling Arts

Alt Krust

I simply got fed up with splitting feathers and scraping pith. I needed a fly with similar qualities that I believe the Breadcrust exhibits to the fishes point of view.

• Hook: Fullingmill Jigforce #10-16
• Bead: 4.0mm faceted tungsten gold.
• Thread: 50D GSP, White.
• Abdomen: Composite dubbing brush with Hemmingway’s Cream and black hare’s mask fur, root beer & bone colored grizzly barred micro legs.
• Collar: Grizzly Hen followed by gray fox pine squirrel guard hairs. Black hares mask.

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Black Flashback Pheasant Tail

• Hook: Firehole Sticks 633 #8-18
• Bead: Black nickel tungsten.
• Tail: Dark pardo CDL.
• Rib: rib: Small stainless steel wire.
• Abdomen: Dyed black pheasant tail.
• Thorax: Black peacock ice dubbing.

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Blondie - French Quill

An all around summer pattern that covers a wide gamut of benthic macros.

• Hook: Fasna 160 #16.
• Bead: Copper tungsten slotted 3.0mm.
• Thread: 50D GSP white.
• Tail: Ginger Pardo CDL.
• Rib: Fine copper wire.
• Abdomen: Bleached pheasant tail.
• Thorax: UV tracer squirrel flash, natural fox squirrel.
• Collar: Fl. yellow thread.

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Deep Haze Perdigone

A gray iridescent mylar and a UV resin coating conspire to create a stunning visual effect that changes color depending on the angle of view.

• Hook: Jig, Jig Supreme, Big Game Jig #10-14.
• Bead: Nickel Tungsten.
• Thread: 50D GSP, white.
• Tail: Dyed red Coq de Leon hackle.
• Rib: Small stainless steel wire.
• Abdomen: Hends perdigones body #34
• Thorax: Touching wraps of the stainless steel wire from the ribbing.
• Collar: true

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Dirty Hipster

An original pattern that started a new way of thinking on how I designing tactical jigs for the American West.

• Hook: Hanak 450BL #10-16
• Bead: Nickle tungsten slotted
• Tail: Medium pardo CDL.
• Rib: Medium oval gold french tinsel.
• Abdomen: Dark hares mask fur
• Thorax: Dark spike blend.
• Collar: UV tracer squirrel dubbing - natural pine.

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Drop Dead (sexy walt's)

Drop Dead Sexy as **** and catches fish like it too. One of my top 10 fish catchers.

• Hook: Fullingmill Jig Force #10-16
• Bead: Hanak metallic pink 4.0mm.
• Thread: 50D GSP white.
• Rib: Hends perdigones pearl body #134.
• Abdomen: Natural hares mask fur and UV pine squirel blended 50-50
• Thorax: Hends Spectra #15 gray.
• Collar: Sparse, UV Tracer Squirrel Dubbing, natural gray fox.

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F2 Caddis

In biology, the figure f denotes generations where and f1 is a genetically wild specimen, f2 is the second generation from an f1 cross, or something like that. In this case, this pattern is the second generation of patterns derived from earlier designs that I have been tying.

• Hook: Fulling Mill Czech #10-16.
• Bead: Black nickel tungsten.
• Thread: UTC 50D GSP.
• Rib: Hends pearl round tinsel #34.
• Abdomen: 50/50 blend caddis green & bleached ginger hare’s mask fur.
• Thorax: Hends spectra dubbing #335 dark brown.
• Shellback: Hends shellback olive #34.
• Legs: Olive Coq de Leon hen saddle.

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Glam Rocker

My most effective fly..EVER!

• Hook: Fulling Mill Jig Force #18.
• Bead: Nickel slotted tungsten.
• Thread: 50D GSP white.
• Tail: Medium Pardo CDL.
• Abdomen: Golden olive and gray wire wound together.
• Thorax: Spectra #32

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Glam Rocker - Ginger / Brown

This is the PMD jig that western anglers and trout have been asking for. This color also covers a wide gamut of benthic macros trout feed on such as red quills, pale morning duns, march browns and small tan to brown stoneflies. The copper brown tones are a good year around the pattern and excellent for searching nymph..

• Hook: Tactical Jig in both standard gap and wide gap hooks sizes 12-18.
• Bead: Slotted metallic brown tungsten
• Tail: Dark mottled pardo Coq de Leon (CDL). Choose feathers with heavy mottling.
• Abdomen: Uni-wire small ginger and matte brown.
• Thorax: UV pine squirrel.

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Gold Ribbed Hares Ear Softie

• Hook: Fullingmill Jig Force #10-18
• Bead: Gold faceted tungsten
• Thread: 50D GSP White thread.
• Tail: Medium pardo CDL.
• Rib: Medium oval french tinsel
• Abdomen: Natural hares mask fur.
• Thorax: Mix of UV tracer pine squirrel and natural hares mask.
• Collar: Tan brahma hen spun in dubbing loop with a few strands of spectra #45 brused out.

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Goliath Spring Midge

Matches the big spring midges very nicely.

• Hook: Dohiku #303, 12-18.
• Rib: Hends perdigones pearl body #45 counter ribbed with sm gray wire.
• Abdomen: Dyed gray pheasant tail fibers.
• Thorax: Hends Spectra #47, 901.
• Head: Black

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Green Papaya

• Hook: Hanak 333BL #8-16.
• Thread: 50D GSP White thread.
• Rib: Small oval gold French tinsel under shelback and stainless steel wire over shelback.
• Abdomen: Three equal section of dubbing - olive, yellow and sulphur orange hares mask dubbing.
• Shellback: Hends Stretch Back #10 .
• Markings: Dark brown marker.

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Gun Metal Midge

• Hook: Hanak H-390 Klinkhammer.
• Bead: Glass gun metal gray.
• Thread: 30D GSP White thread.
• Rib: Small silver wire.
• Abdomen: Sybai gun metal tinsel.
• Thorax: Spectra #45.

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Knuckle Dragger - Golden Stone

My most productive anchor fly.

• Hook: Tactical Jig #6-14.
• Bead: Metallic brown (Hanak).
• Thread: 50D GSP White.
• Tail: Mottled rubber legs root beer - Hareline.
• Rib: Hends half round body glass amber.
• Abdomen: Natures Spirit golden stone snowshoe hare blend.
• Thorax: Rusty orange brahma hen in dubbing loop with natures Spirit UV tracer squirrel - golden stone.
• Collar: Natural red fox suirrel.
• Legs: Grizzly mottled rubber legs root beer - Hareline.

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Light Bone Hares Ear

There are so many great colors you can tie a Gold Ribbed Hares Ear. I like pale versions leading up to spring as many macroinverts molt at this time. During molting they can be many shades lighter in color and almost transparent in optical quality.

• Hook: Hanak H230BL #18-16.
• Bead: Black round tungsten
• Tail: Grizzly micro legs, bone.
• Rib: Hanak patina gold tinsel.
• Abdomen: Natural hares mask dubbing.
• Thorax: Hends spectra gray #15.
• Collar: Patina gray tinsel.

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Mayday Flymph

• Hook: Tactical grub
• Bead: Black nickle round tungsten
• Thread: 50D GSP White thread.
• Abdomen: white thread base, chartruese body quill and UV resin
• Thorax: black brahma hen saddle and black UV tracer squirrel in a spun in a dubbing loop

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Micro Stone - Glam Rocker

Matches the small winter stones and similids available in the winter.

• Hook: Tactical Jig in both standard gap and wide gap hooks sizes 16-22.
• Bead: Slotted metallic matte black tungsten.
• Thread: Veevus black 50D GSP.
• Tail: Dark mottled pardo Coq de Leon (CDL). Choose feathers with heavy mottling.
• Abdomen: Uni-wire small brown and black wound together.
• Thorax: Black UV spectra

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Pink & Pine

Super slinky triggering a strong response.

• Hook: Fulling Mill Jig Force #10-16.
• Bead: Hanak. Fl Pink.
• Thread: 50D GSP White.
• Tail: Medium Pardo coq de Leon.
• Rib: Small opalescent pearl tinsel.
• Abdomen: Natural red fox squirrel.
• Thorax: Gray fox squirrel.
• Collar: Spectra #43 and natural fox squirrel tracer dub

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Pink Bead Flame Thrower

A euro-jig for grayling has a practical applications in the western American trout world.

• Hook: Tactical Jig.
• Bead: Metallic pink.
• Tail: Shell pink antron yarn.
• Rib: Pink UV mylar.
• Body: Gray hares mask dubbing.
• Collar: Black hareline dubbin.

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Riffle Drifter Perdigone - Green Papaya

A lighter weight perdigone for czech nymphing shallow riffles.

• Hook: Hends BL 154 #10-16.
• Bead: Hanak 3.5mm Slotted Metallic Olive.
• Thread: 50D GSP, white. Veevus white for a brighter underbody.
• Tail: Dyed yellow badger CDL.
• Rib: x-sm gold wire.
• Body: Hends Perdigone Pearl body chartruese, yellow and orange.
• Thorax: darfk brown marking pen

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Riffle Drifter Perdigone - UV Cream

A lighter weight perdigone for czech nymphing shallow riffles.

• Hook: wetfly
• Bead: Copper round tungsten
• Thread: 50D GSP, white. Veevus white for a brighter underbody.
• Tail: Ginger Coq De Leon.
• Rib: x-sm copper wire.
• Body: Hends Perdigone Pearl pale yellow BQ-02
• Thorax: Several wraps of copper wire from rbbing procedure.

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Rusty Ru - Micro Glint

Eveything is a rusty color at some time of the day. I use these in the morning following the previos days spinner fall.

• Hook: Fullingmill Jig Force 10-18
• Bead: Copper - slotted tungsten
• Thread: 50D GSP, white. Veevus white for a brighter underbody.
• Tail: Dark pardo Coq de Leon.
• Body: Rusty micro-glint thread (Semper-Fli).
• Thorax: Spectra #45

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Sheila Bugger

I brought this classic from Oregon's McKenzie River to Colorado with me, added a big fat juicy bead and started catching fish in the deep slots and during high water -- like how I fished for steelhead up north. (2012)

• Hook: Hanak 400BL #8-12.
• Bead: Metallic Pink.
• Thread: 50D GSP white.
• Tail: Australian Possum and pearl pink holographic tinsel along sides.
• Rib: Small oval gold french tinsel.
• Abdomen: Australian possum fur.
• Thorax: Dyed mottled gray Brahma Hen saddle and squirrel body fur in a composite dubbing loop using a Marc Pettijean magic tool or similar tool.
• Collar: Squirrel body hair followed by black hare’s mask fur. Pink glo-brite thread. Optional - tan Brahma Hen added to the dubbing loop.

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Snowshoe Softie - PT

• Hook: Jig Supreme.
• Bead: Metallic brown tungsten
• Tail: Dark mottled CDL.
• Rib: Small flat copper tinsel.
• Abdomen: Snowshoe hares dubbing, pheasant tail brown.
• Collar: Natural gray fox pine squirrel.
• Hackle: Rusty orange CDL hen saddle.

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Snowshoe Softie - Wheatberry

• Hook: Jig Supreme.
• Bead: Gold faceted slotted tungsten
• Tail: Dark mottled CDL.
• Rib: Small flat matte gold tinsel.
• Abdomen: Snowshoe hares dubbing wheatberry tan.
• Collar: Natural gray fox pine squirrel.
• Hackle: Yellow CDL hen saddle.

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Stalcup Emerger

A Shane Stalcup inspired pattern.

• Hook: Dohiku 303 #18.
• Tail: crimped clear hollow midge-lace
• Abdomen: Hends perdigones Pearl Body #45.
• Thorax: Hends spectra #15, Gray.
• Hackle: Grizzly midge saddle feather.
• Wing: Medium dun CDC pulled over and tied down at rear and covered with a dab of spectra #45.
• Legs: grizzly hen neck, clipped top and bottom.

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Yellow Belly Knuckle Dragger

Outsmarting the fish by a factor of three. Where a "Cat Turd" or that "Pat's Rubber Legs" will catch fish, this thing will slaughter them!

• Hook: Fulling Mill Jig Force #10-14.
• Bead: Black nickle.
• Thread: 50D GSP whit.e
• Tail: Micro barred grizzly rubber legs, olive.
• Rib: Sulky metallic Silver.
• Abdomen: Hends body glass #39, Light Olive
• Thorax: Hends Spectra #131
• Collar: CDL hen saddle yellow.
• Neck: Spectra #332.
• Legs: Micro barred grizzly round rubber legs, olive. forward projecting legs are twice as long as rear.

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Zika Jig - 420

The Zika jig for 2021

• Hook: Tactical jig #14-18.
• Bead: Black nickel tungsten.
• Thread: 30D Veevus white.
• Abdomen: Small black and silver wire wound together spaced evenly.
• Thorax: Spectra 420.

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