This little fly is so simple to tie and so effective when fished that it almost seems like cheating. I like to fish it in tandem with a larger dry fly such as a parachute, or when there is no surface activity, I'll fish it with a larger [more]

When you think of a parachute you tend to think of a post with hackle wrapped around it. That's the way it has been done for as long as I can remember. Well, on this one, we're going to show you a different way of doing parachutes.

I have given novice and experienced tyers a new way of applying CDC as a parachute for any pattern that they may use. I selected this pattern to include in this series because it demonstrates techniques that make this fly unique. All [more]

I will often begin fishing a Baetis or Blue Wing Olive hatch by tying on an Olive Quill Parachute of a matching size to the naturals. As most of you know by now, there are days when the parachute is what the trout seem to want. Sometimes [more]

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Shane Stalcup

One of the most popular patterns created has to be the parachute pattern. Most parachutes have a post around them on which the hackle is wrapped. It [more]

This is my most productive surface emerger when fishing a mayfly hatch. It rides low in the surface film just like the natural just prior to emergence due to the curved shank hook. The foam post makes it highly visible in all light conditions. [more]

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I don’t know how many times I had a red ant save my day! There’ll be a hatch on and I’ll try emergers, duns, parachutes and nothing works. I’m tying to catch a fish [more]

This is a highly visible pattern when fishing the Trico hatch. By using white turkey T-base segments for the wing post, you can tie a slightly taller wing for both visibility for you as well as more accurately matching the wing height [more]