Caleb
Boyle
North Carolina
Home Page: www.calebboyle.com
I
am fourteen years old (as of 2004) and have lived all my life in North
Carolina. I started fly fishing about three years ago and tying about
a year after. I was inspired as I read every fly fishing and fly tying
book in my local library. I love designing my own patterns and
finding new and better tying techniques.
I have an aquarium in my room stocked with aquatic insects that I collected with a seine from local trout streams. I enjoy observing the insects in their natural habitat and watch them hatch into adults.
I fish mostly for trout in the mountains of North Carolina and in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. My dad does not fish, but he is nice enough to take me fishing about once a month, which I am very grateful for.
To pay for my expensive sport my brother and I operate a lawn business. I also sell local fly patterns at the Great Outdoors Provision Company in Charlotte, NC. I sold over 400 flies during my first year of selling flies.
I am a part of a local forum where I won 1st place twice and 2nd place once in fly tying contests.
See more of my flies at www.calebboyle.com. Please note that I also sell my flies on that web site.
Note by Ed Gallop: It was a pleasure photographing Caleb's flies. A close-up inspection revealed an obvious talent and creativeness that could easily make him well known in the fly tying arena some day. He is an excellent tier. Ed.
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Tier: Caleb Boyle (Originator)
Hook: TMC
2248, 12-18.
Thread: Orange Benecchi.
Head: Gold tungsten bead.
Tail: Crystal Flash.
Body: Orange thread.
Rib: One strand of Danville's Depth Ray Florescent Floss and Crystal Flash palmered together with the floss underneath.
Wing Post: Rusty-Brown mohair and one large strand of Crystal Flash rolled into a ball.
Thorax: Mint-Green Superfine dubbing.
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Tier: Caleb Boyle
Hook: Mustad
94840.
Thread: Brown Benecchi.
Body: Rusty-Brown mohair yarn.
Note: You can use hackle on this fly but the mohair yarn is so buggy I don't think you need it, especially if you use floatant. This is a very simple pattern, but it works.
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Tier: Caleb Boyle (Originator)
Hook: Mustad
94840, 10-14.
Body: Black Superfine dubbing with a rib of one strand of bright yellow embroidery thread.
Wing: Deer hair and Crystal Flash.
Eyes: Orange rubber legs, tied in perpendicular to the hook shank after dubbing. Cut the ends off flush with the head.
Head: Black Superfine.
Note: The rubber leg eyes is something I came up with and I think the trout like them too. This has been a killer pattern for me.
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Tier: Caleb Boyle
Hook: Mustad
94840, 10-18.
Thread: Black or green Benecchi.
Wing: White bucktail, ends cut.
Tail: Deer hair.
Body: Peacock herl, yellow floss or embroidery thread, and peacock herl.
Hackle: Brown.
Note: I like to use bucktail for all my Wulffs because I think it looks better and is easier than trying to stack calf tail. This is a local North Carolina pattern that is very productive, just like its cousis, the Royal Wullf and Tennessee Wulff are.
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Tier: Caleb Boyle
Hook: Mustad
94840, 12-16.
Thread: Light yellow Benecchi 12/0.
Tag: Red floss.
Body: Half yellow Antron and half cream Superfine dubbing.
Wing: Deer hair.
Hackle: Medium dun.
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Tier: Caleb Boyle
Hook: Mustad
94840, 12-22.
Thread: Orange Benecchi.
Body: Orange thread or floss.
Thorax: Natural hare's ear dubbing.
Hackle: Partridge soft hackle.
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Tier: Caleb Boyle
Hook: TMC
5263, 4-8.
Thread: Black Benecchi.
Tail: Golden pheasant tippet.
Body: Peacock herl, red floss, and peacock herl.
Hackle: Brown.
Wing: White bucktail.
Head: Built up thread, lacquered.
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