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Custom Flies from Old Hat Fly Tying.
I offer the highest quality tying of fishing flies. I use only hand selected tried and true top quality materials in all my fly patterns. My tying methods are purposeful, thoughtful, not rushed and produce some of the most durable pleasing wet flies you will find anywhere. I specialize in tying wingless wet flies for trout, steelhead and trout spey presentations. I offer a variety of my own flymph patterns, spider patterns and various other wets I have designed over my many years of fishing wet flies. I can also tie any of the classic wet fly or spider patterns if materials are available at the time. I am a custom tier. A one person shop. I can customize any order. Please feel free to contact me with what you are after. I would be happy to help you make the right decisions for your wet fly needs. |
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Patterns are customizable. Do you want a gold wire rib for weight or a little flash added to your order? I can do that. Would you prefer the color tone to be a bit more yellow or olive? I can do that. Would you like the pattern on an up eye hook? I can do that too. Do you prefer a different type of hackle. I can do that. Want to start from scratch and match your local hatch. I can do that as well. Just communicate your needs in your order and we can have further discussion on options, availability and any price differences. A note on hooks. I am offering my patterns tied on contemporary Firehole Outdoors competition sticks as the standard. These are barbless, sharp, USA designed and marketed hooks that have achieved a great reputation for quality and hooking ability. Plus, I simply like supporting the small business.
The Special Offering Section is for my enjoyment and to keep you coming back. I love to tie flies. The offerings here are for a limited time and subject to availability. You get what you see and the offerings will change often depending on what I am tying at the time and what is selling. You might find classic wet flies with hard to find materials, original recipe Hidy flymphs on classic hooks, special fly collections, dubbing mixes, leaders or anything that falls from my vise. Enjoy!
"You must tie and fish your fly so the trout can enjoy and appreciate it."
-James E. Leisenring
-James E. Leisenring
Traditional Style Flymphs
All my flymph patterns are tied in the traditional method. Using the finest quality silk thread, custom blended dubbing ropes are pre-built on a Clark's type block and stored on cards to "cure". The dubbing ropes are then used to build the body of the pattern. The tying steps are historically correct and provide an extremely durable fly. You won't find these in any other retail fly shop. At the moment, I offer a selection of flymph patterns that have provided a large portion of my fishing success over the years. The patterns available here mimic a vast variety of insect species. I believe the flymph design is the most versatile fly design available. Although they excel fished as an active emerger, changing presentation allows them to be fished as a nymph or a dun in the surface as well. I have fished entire mornings or afternoons with one flymph. By changing your presentation, one flymph can fish successfully in many types of water and at various depths. Fish these upstream, dead drifted, downstream, on the swing etc. Let how the fish want it determine your presentation. This means less time fiddling with fly selection, more active fishing and more opportunities at fish.
Light Hare Dun
The Light Hare Dun covers most light colored or yellowish mayflies you may encounter on stream. Offered in sizes #12-#18. $7.00/3 of one size. |
Medium Hare Dun
The Medium Hare Dun covers most light brown, tan or mottled brown mayflies found. Offered in sizes #12 - #18. $7.00/3 of one size. |
Dark Hare Dun
The Dark Hare Dun covers most dark brown, grey or black mayflies. Great for smaller stoneflies too. Offered in sizes #12- #18. $7.00/3 of one size. |
Light Hare Pupa
The Light Hare Pupa adds a gold tinsel for segmentation and covers most light brown or cream caddis pupa. Offered in sizes #12-#18. $7.00/3 of one size. |
Medium Hare Pupa
The Medium Hare Pupa is great for the vast majority of tan or ginger caddis pupa. Offered in sizes #12-#18. $7.00/3 of one size. |
0Dark Hare Pupa
The Dark Hare Pupa covers the darkest caddis species. Dark sedges and black caddis. Offered in sizes #12- #18. $7.00/3 of one size. |
Tups Flymph
The Tups Flymph utilizes a classic flymph Tups dubbing blend to get that yellow-pinkish tone that fish crave. Offered in sizes #12-#18. $7.00/3 of one size |
Muskrat Silver
The Muskrat Silver is reminiscent of the ever popular muskrat wet fly for iron blues, midges or small olives. Offered in sizes #14-#18. $7.00/3 of one size. |
Muskrat Gold
The Muskrat Gold is the "Adams" of the flymph patterns as a great general practitioner. Think march browns. Offered in sizes #12-#18. $7.00/3 of one size. |
Fade (orange)
The Orange Fade is my go to searching pattern. New water? This is my first to tie on. Fall caddis and a great trout spey fly. Offered in #12-#16. $7.00/3 of one size. |
Fade (red)
The Red Fade shares genes with a classic pattern of the Northwest. Great general stonefly pattern. Offered in sizes #12-#16. $7.00/3 of one size. |
Fade (green)
The Green Fade is especially good at mimicking the many green colored free-living caddis species. Offered in sizes #12- #16. $7.00/3 of one size. |
Spider Patterns
I offer a few of my favorite spider patterns here. Evolving from the classic spider patterns of old, these three personal patterns retain all the simplicity in design, form and function but with some purposeful features bringing them into the present. Would you like to add some of the classic patterns to your order? Let me know and I may be able to help you out subject to material availability.
Partridge, Peacock and Orange
The PPO updates the classic with a peacock tinsel rib and adding a little spice the fish love. Offered in sizes #12-#18. $7.00/3 of one size. |
Desert Fox
The Desert Fox excels at mimicking any of the small black insects. Born on high lakes of the PNW. #14-#18. $7.00/3 of one size. |
High Hope (cream)
The High Hope is my answer to a spider with a longer surface drift. Great Tenkara fly as well. I offer this design in many color combinations. #14-#18. $7.00/3 of one size. |
High Hope (speckled brown)
Another great variation of longer floating High Hope spider design. A super upstream spider. Offered in sizes #14-#18. $7.00/3 of one size. |
High Hope (iron blue)
The High Hope Iron Blue reminds us of the classic Iron Blue Duns or Stewart's Spider. Offered in sizes #14-#18. $7.00/3 of one size. |
Special Offerings
Special Offerings are patterns posted for a limited time or one time offerings. See pattern description for pricing and sizes. Saw something you liked and missed out? Contact me and I may be able to work with you depending on availability of materials.
Timpanoga
A personal soft hackled pattern that has a long proven history on the water. Available in many sizes. Great for steelhead and for trout spey as well as traditional trout methods. $7.00 for 3. #12-#16 $9.00 for 3. #4-#10 (tied on salmon hooks) |
Wilted Spinach
A Pacific Northwest pattern with a cult-like following. A great stillwater, river or panfish pattern. Give the fish something they haven't seen before. $7.00 for 3. #14- #18. |
Hidy Brown Hackle
A classic flymph pattern tied to specs with original dubbing blend on beautiful classic barbless up eye hooks. Also available on contemporary down eye hooks. $8.50 for 3. Size #16 (classic up eye, barbless) $7.00 for 3. Sizes #12-#16. (Cont. down eye) |
Light Hare Dun
A version of my Light Hare Dun on contemporary up eye hooks and tied with dun badger hackle. $7.50 for 3. #16 |
Usual
A classic dry pattern that rides in the film tied with snowshoe hare's foot. On classic hooks. $7.00 for 3. #16 |
Hidy Grey Grizzly
A classic flymph pattern tied to specs on beautiful classic barbless up eye hooks. Also available on contemporary down eye hooks. $8.50 for 3. #14 and #16 (classic up eye, barbless) $7.50 for 3. #14 and #16 (cont. down eye) |
Dark Hendrickson (Mahogany Dun)
A custom dubbing blend and two-toned body make this a great Hendrickson emerger. Tied in the traditional flymph method. $7.00 for 3 of one size. #12-#14. |
Hidy's March Brown
A wonderful classic pattern. You can't go wrong. tied in the traditional flymph method with Hidy's dubbing mix and silk ribbing. $7.00 for 3 of one size. #12-#14. |
Rusty Serendipity
Midge, caddis, mayfly. A small attractive bug that has a proven track record. Tied with a variegated rust Antron body. $6.50 for 3. #16 and #18. |
Materials, Collections and Old Hat Stuff
32 Green-butted Skunks.
A professionally tied collection by Garren Wood. Comes with waterproof box. A steal at $75. |
Forest Green Fishing Cap with Old Hat Logo. Light weight ripstop nylon in a Forest green color. Adjustable velcro strap. Unstructured with a low profile. $20
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River Blue Fishing Cap with Old Hat Logo.
Light weight ripstop nylon in a river blue color. Adjustable velcro strap. Unstructured low profile. $20 |
Sandstone Fishing Cap with Old Hat Logo.
A very nice quality lightly brushed cotton cap. Adjustable buckle strap. Unstructured with a low profile. $18 |
Black Fishing Cap with Old Hat Logo.
A very nice quality lightly brushed cotton cap. Adjustable buckle strap. Unstructured with a low profile. $18 |
A wet fly sampler of 5 trout patterns for $12 with free shipping. I choose the patterns and the sizes.
Limit 1 per person. Domestic shipping only. Ships in a standard envelope protected by folded card shown below.
Can be combined with any order but shipping will be added for the whole order.
Limit 1 per person. Domestic shipping only. Ships in a standard envelope protected by folded card shown below.
Can be combined with any order but shipping will be added for the whole order.
NOTE: All orders are done through email. Please contact me below with your order or any questions you may have. I will get back to you with further communication on order details, time table, totals, shipping and payment.
Domestic Shipping: There will be a $4.50 domestic first class USPS shipping and handling charge for all orders under $75. Shipping is free for orders over $75.
International Shipping: There will be a $15.00 international shipping and handling charge to all fly orders. Contact me for international shipping information. Important: I cannot guarantee that you will or will not be charged any customs, taxes or duties. Any customs or import duties are charged once the parcel reaches its destination country. These charges must be paid by the recipient of the parcel. This applies only to International and Canadian orders.
Sorry, I do not except credit or debit cards at this time. Payment can be made through PayPal or by personal check. Check must clear my end before order will be shipped.
Domestic Shipping: There will be a $4.50 domestic first class USPS shipping and handling charge for all orders under $75. Shipping is free for orders over $75.
International Shipping: There will be a $15.00 international shipping and handling charge to all fly orders. Contact me for international shipping information. Important: I cannot guarantee that you will or will not be charged any customs, taxes or duties. Any customs or import duties are charged once the parcel reaches its destination country. These charges must be paid by the recipient of the parcel. This applies only to International and Canadian orders.
Sorry, I do not except credit or debit cards at this time. Payment can be made through PayPal or by personal check. Check must clear my end before order will be shipped.