Jaren's Phly Phishing Photos - My Favorite Flies

This is a box of soft hackle flies tied by my dad and myself. We use these flies in the fall, drifted dead in the current, standard wet fly retrieve or stripped slowly in still water.

Olive Compara Dun

Olive Thorax Dun

 My mom and dad used these two flies in size 18 and 20 in mid April at Little Hole on the Green River. They caught 25 to 30 browns and rainbows (between 15 and 20 inches) each morning. There are blue wing olive hatches from about 10:30 am to 3:00 pm each day.

Olive and Starling Soft Hackle

Syl's Midge

 My dad loves to 'goop' these flies with dry fly topping and fish them in the surface during a hatch. The size 19 olive/starling works well before and during a blue wing olive hatch, he took the biggest brown of the spring (about 20") on this fly at Little Hole. Syl's midge takes 'em during any hatch any time in any water.

Dave's Olive/Tan Damsel

Purple Bead Head Wooly Bugger

 Our olive/tan damsel works great in June and July when damsel nymphs are active. In Utah we use this damsel at Jordanelle Reservoir. In Yellowstone Park we use it at Grebe Lake, cast into the lilly pads and hang on!. Our purple bead head wooly bugger is fished in lakes, stripped slowly through weeds and close to shore. It took huge rainbows and cutthroat this fall on Strawberry Reservoir.

Weighted Black Wooly Bugger

Weighted Ginger Wooly Bugger

 Our weighted black wooly bugger is fished in lakes, stripped slowly through weeds and close to shore, and/or rivers. It took big cutthroats this summer on the Yellowstone River. My brother, Matt, caught a 6-pound rainbow on this streamer at Strawberry Reservoir! We fish our weighted bead head ginger wooly bugger in rivers, cast upstream at 45 degrees retrieved quickly or down and across and swim it into the holes. My dad caught many large browns, (including a 20-incher), and many rainbows on this streamer at the Green River in mid-October.