Clay’s Master Pattern List
Signature Fly Tyers
There are some Northern California Fly Designers that I have come to respect over the years, such as Hogan Brown, Mike Mercer, Bob Quigley. There are also some talented fly designers from Southwest Montana like Craig Matthews, and Rene Harrop.
This group has designed many of my “Go To” patterns. that I have listed in the Lower Yuba River Hatch Chart. I have featured some of their patterns for the various hatches here in Northern California. You can go to the “Signature Fly Tyers Page” by going to the Page linked below.
You can get go the this page to check of the background on these Signature Fly Tyers
If you click on any of the patterns listed below if will give you information which includes
Pattern Name
Class of Fly – Nymph, Emerger, Dry, Dun,or Other
Originator – Originator of the pattern is known
Source – The distributor and in some cases where you can get the flies
Clay’s Notes – Notes on the fly and it’s uses and in some cases fly tying recipes.
The list includes patterns I use and recommend (my “go-to flies” are marked with a star).
Dries
Adams Parawulff
Adams Parawulff – March Brown 
Blue Wing Olive Thorax
Brooks Hot Creek Caddis – Hydropyshe
CDC Baetis Dun
CDC Biot Thorax, PMD – Harrop
CDC Low Profile Caddis – Olive
CDC PMD Dun
CDC Thorax Pink Albert
Cahill Pink
Comparadun – Baetis
Cutter’s E-C Caddis
Cutter’s E-C Caddis – For Mothers Day Caddis
Enhanced Chaos Hopper
Fat Albert
Fertile Caddis – Black
Fertile Green Caddis
Gray Drake Parachute
Green X-Caddis
Grizzly Wulff
Harrop’s Last Chance Cripple – BWO
Henrys Fork Caddis – Olive
Hogans Low Rider Sally
Light Cahill
Light Cahill
Light Cahill Parachute
Little Yellow Stone, Female
March Brown Biot Parachute
Mercer’s Foam Parachute Sulpher
Old Yeller Sally
Olive Quill Parachute
Olive X-Caddis
Parachute Baetis – Dubbed Body
Quigley’s Sparkle Stacker
Quigley’s Split Flag PMD
Quigleys Loopy PMD
Skwala Stone Dry – Tie Your Own – Version 1
Skwala Stone Dry – Tie Your Own – Version 2
Skwala Stone Dry – Tie Your Own – Version 3
Skwala Stone Dry – Tie Your Own – Version 5
Skwala Stone Dry – Tie Your Own – Version 6
Skwala Stonefly Dry – Tie Your Own
Skwalanator
Sparkle Dun Baetis
Stalcups Hopper
Stimulator – Golden
Stimulator – Yellow
Stimulator Olive
Tan X-Caddis
The Knothead
ThingamaHopper
Trina’s Para Sally
Western March Brown Parachute
X2-Caddis – Dark Green
Duns
BWO Hairwing Dun
Baetis Sparkle Dun
CDC Biot Captive Dun – Harrop
CDC Biot Dun, PMD – Harrop
CDC PMD Thorax Dun
Epeorus Improved Sparkle Dun
Gray Drake Comparadun
Harrops Olive Hairwing Dun
March Brown Sparkle Dun
March Brown Twilight Dun
No Hackle PMD
Olive Quill Dun
Olive Sparkle Dun – BWO
PMD Improved Sparkle Dun
PMD Pop Top Mayfly
Pale Evening Thorax Dun
Quigley’s Hackle Stacker BWO
Quigley’s Loopy PMD
Quigley’s Split Flag BWO
Quigleys Film Critic PMD
Spun Dun PED (Deschutes Angler)
Western March Brown Biot Dun
Western March Brown Hairwing Dun
Emergers
Antron Caddis Pupa
BWO CDC Cripple
Baetis Soft Hackle Emerger
Barr Emerger
Bead Head Thorax PMD Emerger
CDC Baetis
CDC Biot Emerger
Down and Dirty Cripple PMD
Drymerger Baetis
Emergent Caddis Pupa – Solitude
Epeorus Soft Hackle
Gray Drake Cripple
Harrop’s Last Chance Cripple
Hogan’s Sipper BWO
Hogans Drifter – Brown for PMDs
Hogans SIM’s Mayfly Emerger – PMD
Hogans The Sipper -PMD
Hogans Yuba Emerger – Olive
Hogans Yuba Emerger – Tan
Hogans Yuba Pupa – Dark Olive
Iris Caddis
Last Chance Cripple PMD
Last Chance Cripple Pink Albert
Lawson’s PMD Cripple
March Brown Flymph
March Brown Soft Hackle
Nemes Soft Hackle Pheasant Tail Isonychia
PMD Cripple
PMD Emerger
PMD Nymph (Floating)
Pale Morning Dun – Cripple PMD
Pale Watery Dun Wingless (Originators James Leisenring & Pete Hidy)
Partridge and Peacock Soft Hackle
Partridge and Yellow Floss Soft Hackle
Quigley’s Film Critic
Quigley’s Flasher Cripple
Quigley’s Hackle Stacker PMD
Quigley’s Hat Creek Emerger -PMD
Quigley’s Loopy BWO
Quigley’s Olive Marabou Cripple
Quigleys CDC Emerger PMD
Quigleys Half Dun PMD
Quigleys Hat Creek Emerger PMD
Quigleys Marabou Cripple PMD Creamy Orange
Quigleys Spider Varient – (Iydlwilde)
RS2 Olive
Stillborn PMD Emerger
Translucent Caddis Emerger
Nymphs
Andersons Rubberleg Stone -
Baetis Nymph – Solitude
Bead Head Bubbleback BWO
Bead Head Bubbleback PMD Emerger
Bead Head Crystal Pheasant Tail BWO
Bead Head Crystal Pheasant Tail PMD
Bead Head Humpback PMD
Bead Head Krystal Flasher Chocolate BWO
Burks HBI Nymph
Crackback PMD
Epeorus Nymph
FFT’s Skwala Nymph
Foxs Poopah
Foxs Springtime Poopah
Green Caddis Rock Worm
Green Rock Worm
Hogans Chubby Cousin Golden
Hogans March Brown Clinger Nymph
Hogans Military May Olive
Hogans Military May – Brown/PMD
Hogans Red Headed Step Child –Attractor
Hogans Rock & Roller (Golden)
Hogans S&M – Brown
Hogans S&M Brown – For PEDs
Hogans S&M Nymph – Olive
Hogans Spring Fling Pupa
Hogans Two Tone Stone
Hogans Wire Nest – Red
Hogans Yuba Pupa –Olive
Hogans Yuba Rubber Leg Stonefly Nymph
Hogan’s Isonychia Nymph
Hunchback Two Tone Burks
Jimmy Legs for Golden Stone
Jimmy Legs for Skwala (The Fly Shop)
LaFontaine Caddis Sparkle Pupa
Light Cahill Nymph for PEDs (Big Y Fly Co.)
March Brown Para-Nymph
Mayfly Nymph Pink Albert
Mercer’s Beaded Biot Epoxy Golden Stone
Mercer’s Glass Bead Micro Mayfly
Mercer’s Gold Bead Poxyback PMD
Mercer’s Little Brown Bug
Mercer’s Parachute Profile Spinner
Mercer’s Poxyback PMD Emerger
Mercer’s Poxyback Pale Morning Dun
Mercer’s Trigger Nymph – PMD
Mercers GB Biot Epoxy Stone -Isoperla
Mercers Little Stone Nymph – Light – Isoperla
Mercers Poxyback Isonychia Nymph
Mercers Poxyback Little Yellow Stone
Mercers Tungston Skwala Stone
Morrish’s Anato-May PMD
Morrish’s Hot Wire Caddis
Morrish’s Iron Sally Nymph
PMD Micro Madison Nymph
PMD Micro Mayfly – Brown
PMD Nymph
PMD Sparkle Dun
PMD Thin Mint
Pale Evening Dun Comparadun
Pheasant Tail Nymph
Pheasant Tail Nymph – March Brown
Pheasant Tail for Baetis
Poly Wing Trico Spinner
Prince Nymph
Quigley’s Flash Caddis
Quigley’s March Brown Cripple
Quigley’s March Brown Hackle Stacker
Quigleys PMD Floating Nymph
Quigleys Stacker Sally
Skips Nymph PMD
Skwala Stone Dry with Egg Sack – Tie Your Own Version 4
Slate Gray Nymph
Sloan’s Mighty May
Sloan’s Mighty May – PMD
Sloans Isonychia Nymph
Supperfloss Rubberlegs for Skwala
The Fly Shop’s Li’l Yellow Stone
The Peoples Stonefly
The Peoples Stonefly – Skwala – Tie Your Own
Trico Sparkle Dun
Trico WD40 Nymph
Western Brown Nymph
Yellow Sally Beadhead Nymph
Zack Thurman’s Lucent Tungsten Bead Psuedo May’s
Zack Thurman’s Pseudo May
Other
CDC Baetis Spinner
CDC Biot Spinner – Rusty
CDC PMD Spinner
Caddis Electric Rock Worm
Caramel Roe (Troutbeads)
Dark Roe (Troutbeads)
Epeorus Hi-Vis Spinner
Epeorus Spinner
Glow Roe (Troutbeads)
Micro Spawn – Oregon Chesse (or Sucker Spawn)
Natural Roe (Troutbeads)
Nicks Soft Hackle
Orange Pearl (Troutbeads)
PMD CDC Biot Rusty Para-Spinner – Harrop
Peach Pearl (Troutbeads)
Rithrogenia Sparkle Spinner
Salmon (Troutbeads)
Surreal Egg – Peachy King
Surreal Egg – Pink Lady
Surreal Egg – Salmon Egg
Surreal Egg – Shrimp Pink
Surreal Egg – Steelhead Orange
Tangerine (Troutbeads)
Trico Spinner