SOFT October Meeting 2025

  Southern Oregon Fly Tyers      

                          Meeting on Tuesday Oct 14th, 2025      

                                                 6:00 PM

                         Madrone Hill Mobile Home Park

                          8401 Old Stage Road, Gold Hill

                                       This evenings tyer:

                                                        Kevin Daniels

                                            Kevin will be tying:

BRICK BACK CADDIS

Hook:  heavy wire, long shank with a French curve.  Daiichi 1260 sizes 6 – 10

Bead:  Black metal, 1/8 inch

Weight:  Lead or lead substitute -  one layer 0.015 inch over 1 layer 0.020 inch

Threads:  Brown 3/0.  You can switch to 8/0 or 6/0 after abdomen is formed

Abdomen:  Amber and orange rabbit fur mixed with fine chopped silver, pearl and yellow mylar strands like angel  Hair or Lite Brite or buy  Arizona Flyfishing  “Skip”s October Caddis”  color.  The bars are made with brown  poly  yarn or Stretch Flex,  Scud Back, or Antron Yarn and.  If you want a truly brilliant fly – Krysrtal Flash or Flashabou.

Legs:  One grizzly saddle feather- dyed brown or brown hen saddle or hen neck hackle.

Eyes:  Extra small pre-made Black plastic  barbell eyes.  Eyes are optional without a bead, but always omitted if you use a bead.

Thorax:  Dark-brown rabbit mixed with fine, chopped silver, pearl and brown mylar or dark brown rabbit or Arizona Flyfishing’s Sparkle Nymph Dubbing in “Dark Brown.”

MIKULAK SEDGE

October Caddis Version

Hook:  light wire, 2 XL, size 6-8

Thread:  Orange -  8/0 or 6/0

Tail:  Part of the wing, natural light-brown elk hair

Wing and body: Sections of natural light-brown elk hair and yellow-orange synthetic Dubbing:  (Antron, Superfine Dry Fly Dubbing, poly dubbing.)

Hackle:  One, brown

Head:  The  butts of the final bunch of elk hair, cut straight across, over the eye.

 

SOFT Meeting September 9, 2025

                                                     Southern Oregon Fly Tyers      

                          Meeting on Tuesday Sept 9th, 2025      

                                                 6:00 PM

                         Madrone Hill Mobile Home Park

                          8401 Old Stage Road, Gold Hill

                                       This evenings tyer:

                                                      John Storfold

                                       

                                                           USAF CMSgt (Retired)                                                                                                                            Southern Oregon Fly Fishers                                                                                                                         Fly Tying Chair                                                                                                                                          Auction Committee                                                                                                                               Project Healing Waters  Volunteer

                                                           John will be tying:

                        

                                                            The Spade

                                                       Recipe:

                                                  Thread: veevus 10/0 black w/ red head

                                                  Tail: Deer

                                                  Body: rear ½ peacock herl, front ½ ostrich herl black

                                                  Collar: Grizzly Hackle

                                                  Head: Red thread

                                                                  Spade Skunk

                                                        Recipe:

                                             Thread: veevus 10/0 black w/ red head                                                                                                         Tail: Deer         

                                             Body: rear ½ peacock herl, front ½ ostrich herl black

                                              Collar:  Black hackle 

                                              Wing:   White calf’s tail

                                              Head:  Red thread

Note:

Dave McCants is unable to attend the meeting.

Dale Burrier will be filling in for Dave. 

 

                                          SOFT   2025-2026 Fly Tyers

                       Meeting Date                                                Tyer

                    September 9, 2025                                  John Storfold 

                    October 14, 2025                                     Kevin Daniels

                    November 11, 2025                                 Cathy Hamilton

                    December 9, 2025                                    Rob Walters

                    January 13, 2026                                      David Haight

                    February 10, 2026                                    Dave McCants

                    March 10,2026                                         John Smith

                    April 14,2026                                           Tom Corbiere

                    May 12, 2026                                           Dale Burrier

June 10th 2025 Meeting

  

SOFT June  2025 Meeting

 

 June  Meeting        Southern Oregon Fly Tyers      

                          Meeting on Tuesday June 10th,  2025      

                                                 6:00 PM

                         Madrone Hill Mobile Home Park

                          8401 Old Stage Road, Gold Hill

                                       This evenings tyers:

                                                            Are Y'all

This will be a tying meeting so bring your stuff and lets get tying your favorite pattern.  

The large extension cords will be out so bring your short power cords for your vice lights.

Let's try to tie at least 2 flies for the raffle and extra flies for WaterWatch.  This will be the last chance to donate flies for WaterWatch  since our next meeting is September.

*There will be at least 4 capes in the raffles.

Hope to see you there.

 

Follow up to the May 13th meeting

 This is a follow-up from our May meeting featuring Tom Corbiere.

Thanks Tom for all of your information mastering fly tying materials. 

This was the magnifying glasses Tom was using.  Yoctosun makes several different kits like this one at different price points at Amazon.  Just ordered mine.

Additional information from Tom.

It's almost salmon fly season!

 

                                                 These are submitted by Dave (Bear) McCants

McBear’s Salmon Fly – my original design

Donated and tied by David P. (Bear) McCants

Hook -                  Partridge long shank pre-WW2 #2, or #4 Daiichi 2110,

Thread -               Uni 6/0 fire orange,

Tail/

Underbody -        Black closed 2mm cell foam,

Body palmer -     Whiting Farms golden Olive Saddle or similar,

Body -                   Orange Macrame Yarn -most tyers use foam,

Wing -                  Yearling Bull Elk,

                              McBear’s options (Grizzly or Light Brown Bear or

                              Cinnamon Bear)

Hackle -                Whiting Farms Brown or Coachman Brown Hackle,

                              2 hackles leaving gap in center of two hackles to show

                              Uni Fire Orange thread.

 

Optional -            Tie on Owner 5102-111 1/0 offset worm hook wide gap upside down and fish as a bass fly at front of the dam at Lost Creek Lake when the salmon flies are flying over the top of the dam! This fly is tied large to represent the egg laying female which is much larger than male.

The Salmon fly is as per Don Labbe (SF GGA&CC,who passed away in Dec 2016),

Hook - DaiRiki 700 in 4 (female) and 6 (male), 

Thread – Uni Black 8/0

Tail - golden pheasant tippet fibers,

Rib - counter wound fine gold wire, 

Abdomen - light orange antron or macramé yarn,

Hackle - grizzly, not wider than gape, tied in from front to tail,

Stripe of 6 wraps of neon orange thread,

Hackle, med brown, 2 feathers tied with 6-7 wraps and trimmed on top,

Wing - cinnamon/brown bear or moose body hair ( lighter brown in color),

Head, black thread with strip of neon thread.

Thanks Bear

 

Southern Oregon Fly Tyers May 2025 Meeting

 

Southern Oregon Fly Tyers May Meeting

 

SOFT May 2025 Meeting

 

 May Meeting        Southern Oregon Fly Tyers      

                          Meeting on Tuesday May 13th,  2025      

                                                 6:00 PM

                         Madrone Hill Mobile Home Park

                          8401 Old Stage Road, Gold Hill

                                       This evenings tyer:

                                                       Tom Corbiere

Tom Says:

I have been tying fly’s for on and off, 50 years.  I started in my early teens in Northern Colorado. I have tied all types of trout dry, streamer and nymph patterns. I moved to Grants Pass in 2014.  This is when I became enamored with the classic Steelhead and Salmon patterns. For the past couple of years, I have been concentrating my tying to the Victorian era Atlantic Salmon Fly Patterns.

I am currently on the Dr. Slick Pro Staff and Daiichi hooks Pro Staff.  In addition, I am a member of Project Healing Waters Fly-Fishing, Fly-Fishing Veterans, The Mayfly Project, Southern Oregon Fly Fishers and Southern Oregon Fly Tyers.  In 2023 I was awarded Top Tyer at the East Idaho Fly Tying & Flyfishing Expo.

Tom will be tying:

Blue Charm Fly (var.)

A. H. Wood who is recognized as the “father of floating lines” is credited as the originator of the Blue Charm and the fly pattern appears in Kelson's book "The Salmon Fly", published in 1895. The hair wing fly that I am tying is a more modern variant originally tied in the 1950's by John Reidpath of Inverness, Nova Scotia.  The Blue Charm is an effective low water pattern for Steelhead and Salmon.

 

Hook: Daiichi 2055

Thread: Semperfli Nano Silk (50 denier) White & Black

Tag:  Silver Oval Tinsel & Yellow Floss

Tail:  Golden Pheasant Crest

Butt:  Black Ostrich Herl

Body: Black Silk

Rib:  Oval Tinsel and Flat Tinsel

Hair Wing: Grey Squirrel Tail

Hackle/Throat: Hen Saddle in Blue

*Optional Cheeks:  Jungle Cock