Here are some more of our favorite flies.

Black rubber legs
E Z minnow
Thunder Creek streamer
Yellow rubber leg

Hook: Size 4 thru 10 standard nymph hook

Weight: Lead free wire wrapped along the hook shank

Thread: Black

Body: Black chenille

Legs, tail, antenna: Yellow Spider Legs or Spanflex

Hook: Size 4 thru 10 standard nymph hook

Weight: Lead free wire wrapped along hook shank

 Thread: Yellow or olive

Body: Yellow variegated chenille

Legs, tail, antenna: Brown Spider Legs or Spanflex

The rubber leg series of flies are very good stone fly nymph imitations.

Hook: Size 4 thru 10, 3x streamer. ( Or, the old standard hook originally used for the Thunder Creek series)

Wing/Head: Brown buck tail on top, white buck tail on bottom

Underwing: A few red buck tail fibers and pearl Krystal Flash

Body: Tinsel or flash material

Collar: Red thread wraps

Eyes: Optional, but I like doll eyes on the larger flies.

Hook: Size 4 thru 10 3x streamer

Thread: Red

Under body: Any color holographic tinsel

Body: Pearl EZ Shape Sparkle Body

Wing: Olive Fish Hair (or other synthetic wing material) tied Thunder Creek style

Eyes: Doll eyes

These two little streamers are good imitations of small whitefish. I like to fish these small, un-weighted, streamers in the shallow edges at first light and as darkness comes or on overcast days. This is when the big browns move into the shallow water (That is adjacent to deeper refuge water) to hunt. Cast them right to the bank and work them with short twitches.

EZ Shape Sparkle Body is an amazing material developed as an alternative to epoxy. Originally used for salt water flies, EZ Shape Sparkle Body has many uses in fresh water flies as well. After tying in the wing material (tips extending forward) wrap the hook shank with holographic tinsel. Then, cover the tinsel with pearl Sparkle Body. A rotary vise helps, but is not necessary. Cover the tinsel completely with the Sparkle Body building a slight taper towards the head. Sparkle Body will not drip or sag, up to a point. If your Sparkle Body sags, just use your bodkin to remove some. Don't worry about making the body perfectly smooth. Sparkle Body will smooth itself out as it dries. The Sparkle Body will come out of the tube milky white. Then, as it dries it takes on the translucent appearance and the "sparkles" become visible. Sparkle Body will set-up in a few hours, but I like to let in cure over night.

To learn more about EZ Shape Sparkle Body go to, www.saltwaterflies.com.