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Yes on larger flies like a standard streamer I use a longer strip of rabbit skin and add a wire rib to tie it to the body like a Matuka wing. On the smaller ones there just isn't much material to tie...

Tied up a few alevin patterns. Tried my little panfish streamer with a few modifications: size 10 egg or scud hook, oversized black bead, Pearl Ice dub body, black crystal flash underwing, squirrel...

Practice and a pretty expensive camera :)

The part that looks like a wonder wing (thanks for that I'm going to use those in the future) was just the tip of a flank feather. Rather than cut a chunk...

That squirrel is a great idea. I've tied these really small using squirrel. Eventually it gets hard to keep them down as they get real small as the fur really likes to suspend. That's great though...

The kids are out of school today so I figured I?d whip up some flies and take my son down to a pond and try to get some bluegill. My favorite streamer is John Barr?s Slumpbuster. A few years ago I...

Yeah, the last few years I've been collecting CDC feathers like crazy during duck season. I probably have a $500 ziplock bag full of them :) I try to work them in to all sorts of patterns. The clear...

11. You can see this really accentuates the segments. This would make a nice body for a terrestrial Bee of Yellow Jacket
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This is a pattern I came up with for Little Yellow Sallies, small terrestrial and big Caddis. More of a slow water pattern not as buoyant as the flies with more foam but a more realistic profile.
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This is my version of a caddis pupa. I call it the CDC and Pearl Pupa.

1. Start with a beadhead on a caddis or scud hook. This is 2mm black bead on a #16 TMC 2487BL hook
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I haven't been on here in a while. Thought I'd post a few flies I recently did.

I have a nice pile of Greenwing Teal flank feathers from this season and decided to put them to use. Here is a...

One technique I was told once was to hang the fly from a thin piece of wire adn then photoshop out the wire. It makes the flies look like they are floating. That's how Peter Frailey did this......

I have not been around for a while. Just stopped in and see there was some interest in my fly. Wish I would have seen this earlier I would have taken place!
Cheers,
David Kratville

ps I actually...

Well this rain might keep me from fishing but I've been tying like crazy. Here is a pic of the yellow floss golden stone and then also a Crawdad variation I tied this morning. Well time to go off to...

Bob,
-I slide on the bead head and then piearce the thicker piece of foam onto the hook.

-put the hook in the vice and wrap the lead wire forward from the point of the hook.

-attach the thread...

Thanks everyone. I actually used the bead head and about 16 wraps of .025 lead wire. I wrapped from about the hook point forward to the bead. I was actually thinking of doing a bugger this way too....

Hey I came up with a nymph pattern this morning using a similar technique. It's in a new post titled Foam Body Stone Nymph. Hopefully this one will work too.

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David Kratville

I decided to try and make a foam bodied nymph like my Caddis pattern. I used a bead head and a bunch of lead wire to overcome the buoyancy of the foam. To my surprise when I tossed one in my sink the...

In the March issue of Fly Fisherman therr is an article on crayfish flies. It says that fish will actually go after the freshly molted softshell crawdads which tend to have smaller claws. If you see...

Since people seem to be interested in my pattern I added a page to my website: [url=http://www.kratvillephoto.com/Caddis:80b61]www.kratvillephoto.com/Caddis[/url:80b61] that shows some of the...

Hello,
I mainly developed the technique of piercing the foam tying a grasshopper pattern. I then got some of the thin razor foam and figured I could use it as wing material. I tried it on a smaller...