Crooked River Flies – Done

If you’ve been following my posts lately, you know I’ve been working on a project to complete a box of flies for the Crooked River. Well, it’s finished. Here are the Crooked River Flies – done!

These flies are variations of established fly patterns created by Bill Seitz, who I call “Crooked River Bill.” He catches fish on the Crooked River…and I mean LOTS of fish.

While I don’t fish the Crooked River much, my initial goal was to document Bill’s flies he shared in our local Central Oregon Flyfisher’s newsletter in a more usable form. Let me know if I’ve achieved my goal.

If you want to know the reasons they work, check out my previous Crooked River Flies post. I discuss biomass, fly size, profile, segmentation, hot spots and flash, and UV material…important concepts for Bill’s flies.

But back to the flies.

The final flies added to the box were Ray Charles…1/2 dozen each of White and Tan and the Bling. 

So count ’em up…you should reach 8 dozen…96 flies!

Row 1 (Top)

• Ray Charles – White
• Ray Charles – Tan
• Deep Blue Poison Tung

Row 2

• Mercury Midge – Black
• Mercury Midge – Peacock Blue
• Miracle Midge

Row 3

• Good and Plenty #18
• Frenchie #18
• Peacock Nymph #18

Row 4

• WK Thread Body Mayfly Nymph with hot spot #18
• WK Thread Body Mayfly Nymph #18
• WK Thread Body Mayfly Nymph #16

Row 5

• Mercury Cased Caddis
• Bling

Row 6 (Bottom)

• RS2 – Black #16
• RS2 – Beaver tan #18

So there you have it. My box of Crooked River Flies – done! 

If you fish the Crooked River, be sure to use a few of these fly patterns and let me know how they work!

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