DuPage Rivers Fly Tyers

It's been a fun week to be a DRiFT member! We had our end of the tying season pizza party with a lot of great door prizes, we had our largest turnout for our Casting on the Lawn at the Batavia VFW, Dennis keeps teasing us with pictures of fish from the Dupage River, and the best part was spending time fishing with our nations Veterans. You can't ask for a much better week than that!
And a huge shout-out to the wonderful employees at Ball Seed Company for raising money to help support our Veterans program!

Dennis likes really simple flies. Tuesday he's going to demonstrate the Stupid Easy Streamer!

"This fly is about as simple as it gets. Stupid Simple. I wanted a simple streamer pattern that would keel properly in the water without going too deep and without floating (as do many over-dressed streamers). This pattern uses a small number of materials and has few steps to tie it. I've fished it in lakes and rivers with very good success over the past year or so. This is the kind of fly you can tie up a bunch in various color schemes to match your local baitfish and have time leftover to actually go fish them.

Tight Lines!"
-Dennis

Materials:

Hook: Umpqua 01, U502, Bass Straight Eye
Bead: Firehole Stones Neon Matte Tungsten Beads - 4.6mm (3/16") - Fl. Chartreuse
Thread (White): Danville Flat Waxed Nylon
Tail (WH): Hareline Select Craft Fur White xf 377
Body (WH): Flash Blend Baitfish Brush - Silver Scale White - 2 Inch
Lateral Lines: Lateral Scale - Pearl #1703
Eyes: Fish Skull Living Eyes - 6mm, Any Color
Head Resin: Loon UV Clear, thin, Squeeze Bottle with Tip

7pm to 9pm

College of Dupage
Room TEC-1038 B