Boots Allen is a third generation guide and outfitter from Western Wyoming. Over the last 18 years, he has had the opportunity to fish and guide at destinations around the world, including Argentina, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Costa Rica, British Columbia, and the streams of the Rocky Mountain West. He has penned numerous articles for fly fishing magazines such as Fly Tyer, The Fly Fishing and Tying Journal, The Drake, and Sports Afield. Boots has used his creations at the fly tying vise for a variety of game fish including taimen, pike, lenok, sea-run brown trout, steelhead, pacific salmon, snook, roosterfish, redfish, and almost every imaginable species of trout.

Recipe

• Hook: Standard 1/0 or 2/0 saltwater hook (example- Mustad 34007)
• Thread: Chartruese 3/0 flat wax nylon
• Body: Ice or Krystal Flash chenille, gold or light olive
• Top Wing: Super Hair or Crinkle Hair, blue
• Interior Lateral Line: Krystal Flash chenille - gold or pearl
• Exterior Lateral Line: Super Hair or Crinkle Hair, sea-foam green or olive
• Belly Wing: Super Hair or Crinkle Hair, light blue.

Boots Allen is a third generation guide and outfitter from Western Wyoming. Over the last 18 years, he has had the opportunity to fish and guide at destinations around the world, including Argentina, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Costa Rica, British Columbia, and the streams of the Rocky Mountain West. He has penned numerous articles for fly fishing magazines such as Fly Tyer, The Fly Fishing and Tying Journal, The Drake, and Sports Afield. Boots has used his creations at the fly tying vise for a variety of game fish including taimen, pike, lenok, sea-run brown trout, steelhead, pacific salmon, snook, roosterfish, redfish, and almost every imaginable species of trout.

Recipe

• Hook: Alec Jackson style 1/0 salmon hook (example- TMC 7999)
• Thread: UTC 140, Burnt Orange
• Claws: Ringneck pheasant neck feathers (those coming off the neck saddles directly posterior of white ringneck feathers)
• Appendages: Four strands of copper Flashabou, plus two strands of peacock herl, plus two strands of olive Silli-Legs
• Eyes: Dumbbell eyes, white or red
• Body: Dyed pearl diamond braid, bonefish tan
• Swimmerets: Saddles hackle, brown or honey
• Backstrap: Rabbit fur strips - orange, burnt orange, or barred orange
• Tail: Golden pheasant neck feathers

Boots Allen is a third generation guide and outfitter from Western Wyoming. Over the last 18 years, he has had the opportunity to fish and guide at destinations around the world, including Argentina, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Costa Rica, British Columbia, and the streams of the Rocky Mountain West. He has penned numerous articles for fly fishing magazines such as Fly Tyer, The Fly Fishing and Tying Journal, The Drake, and Sports Afield. Boots has used his creations at the fly tying vise for a variety of game fish including taimen, pike, lenok, sea-run brown trout, steelhead, pacific salmon, snook, roosterfish, redfish, and almost every imaginable species of trout.

Recipe
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• Hook: Dai Riki 135, Size 10
• Thread: Tan 6/0
• Wing: Sand-colored EP Silky Fibers
• Shuck: Small tan Tentacle Legs
• Abdomen: Tying thread (coated with Zap-A-Gap)
• Ribbing: Brown, flat wax tying thread (Coated with Zap-A-Gap)
• Legs: Tan or clear Tentacle Legs
• Wing Support: Tan 2mm foam
• Hackle: Brown
• Thorax and head: Cream or tan dubbing

Boots Allen is a third generation guide and outfitter from Western Wyoming. Over the last 18 years, he has had the opportunity to fish and guide at destinations around the world, including Argentina, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Costa Rica, British Columbia, and the streams of the Rocky Mountain West. He has penned numerous articles for fly fishing magazines such as Fly Tyer, The Fly Fishing and Tying Journal, The Drake, and Sports Afield. Boots has used his creations at the fly tying vise for a variety of game fish including taimen, pike, lenok, sea-run brown trout, steelhead, pacific salmon, snook, roosterfish, redfish, and almost every imaginable species of trout.

Recipe

• Hook: Mustad 34011, size 4 to size 2/0
• Thread: Black 3/0
• Tail: Strip of antelope hide colored black
• Shellback: Two strips of black and white, two-tone, 2mm foam
• Body: Black Ice chenille
• Legs: Four strips of black rubber, knotted to form knee and ankle joints

Boots Allen is a third generation guide and outfitter from Western Wyoming. Over the last 18 years, he has had the opportunity to fish and guide at destinations around the world, including Argentina, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Costa Rica, British Columbia, and the streams of the Rocky Mountain West. He has penned numerous articles for fly fishing magazines such as Fly Tyer, The Fly Fishing and Tying Journal, The Drake, and Sports Afield. Boots has used his creations at the fly tying vise for a variety of game fish including taimen, pike, lenok, sea-run brown trout, steelhead, pacific salmon, snook, roosterfish, redfish, and almost every imaginable species of trout.

Recipe:

• Hook: Dai-Riki 135, Size 8-12
• Thread: Clear, fine monochord
• Eyes: Black dumbbell eyes, size to match hook
• Antennae: Pearlescent Silli Legs
• Body: Pearl Diamond Braid
• Hackle: White
• Shellback: White or tan Scud Skin
• Ribbing: Fine black wire

Also see other flies by Boots.

This pattern is especially interesting because it was invented by his father.

Boots Allen is a third generation guide and outfitter from Western Wyoming. Over the last 18 years, he has had the opportunity to fish and guide at destinations around the world, including Argentina, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Costa Rica, British Columbia, and the streams of the Rocky Mountain West. He has pened numerous articles for fly fishing magazines such as Fly Tyer, The Fly Fishing and Tying Journal, The Drake, and Sports Afield. Boots has used his creations at the fly tying vise for a variety of game fish including taimen, pike, lenok, sea-run brown trout, steelhead, pacific salmon, snook, roosterfish, redfish, and almost every imaginable species of trout.

Recipe:

• Hook: Any standard dry fly hook, sizes 6 to 10.
• Thread: Yellow, orange, green, or red 3/0 flat wax.
• Tail and Body: Mule deer hair from the neck and facial area.
• Hackle: Fine grizzly hackle. I typically will use silver or gold label hackle from Whiting Farms.

Also see other flies by Boots.

This pattern is used for Taimen, Lenok, Pike, Browns, and cutties. Boots has specifically used it a lot in Mongolia, Russia, and Kasakhstan.

Boots Allen is a third generation guide and outfitter from Western Wyoming. Over the last 18 years, he has had the opportunity to fish and guide at destinations around the world, including Argentina, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Costa Rica, British Columbia, and the streams of the Rocky Mountain West. He has pened numerous articles for fly fishing magazines such as Fly Tyer, The Fly Fishing and Tying Journal, The Drake, and Sports Afield. Boots has used his creations at the fly tying vise for a variety of game fish including taimen, pike, lenok, sea-run brown trout, steelhead, pacific salmon, snook, roosterfish, redfish, and almost every imaginable species of trout.

Recipe:

• Hook: Mustad 34011, Size 1/0.
• Thread: Black 3/0 Flat Wax Nylon
• Bead: Tungsten Cone and Bead Combo
• Underbody: Olive Magnum Zonker Strip
• Overbody: Black Magnum Zonker Strip.
• Lateral Line: Barred Red Zonker Strip
• Collar: Peacock Herl

Also see other flies by Boots.

Boots Allen is a third generation guide and outfitter from Western Wyoming. Over the last 18 years, he has had the opportunity to fish and guide at destinations around the world, including Argentina, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Costa Rica, British Columbia, and the streams of the Rocky Mountain West. He has pened numerous articles for fly fishing magazines such as Fly Tyer, The Fly Fishing and Tying Journal, The Drake, and Sports Afield. Boots has used his creations at the fly tying vise for a variety of game fish including taimen, pike, lenok, sea-run brown trout, steelhead, pacific salmon, snook, roosterfish, redfish, and almost every imaginable species of trout.

Recipe:

• Hook: Mustad 34011, Size 1/0.
• Thread: Black 3/0 Flat Wax Nylon
• Eyes: Black Dumbbell eyes, size to match hook
• Overbody: Black Magnum Zonker Strip.
• Body: 1 mm two or single color foam. Dubbing can be used as an alternative. A variety of color can be used.
• Lateral Line: Purple Flashabou Accent

Also see other flies by Boots.

And other Sea -Run Brown patterns.

Boots Allen is a third generation guide and outfitter from Western Wyoming. Over the last 18 years, he has had the opportunity to fish and guide at destinations around the world, including Argentina, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Costa Rica, British Columbia, and the streams of the Rocky Mountain West. He has pened numerous articles for fly fishing magazines such as Fly Tyer, The Fly Fishing and Tying Journal, The Drake, and Sports Afield. Boots has used his creations at the fly tying vise for a variety of game fish including taimen, pike, lenok, sea-run brown trout, steelhead, pacific salmon, snook, roosterfish, redfish, and almost every imaginable species of trout.

Recipe:

• Hook: standard dry fly hook, sizes 4 to 10.
• Thread: 3/0 in gray, yellow, green, brown, cream, or orange.
• Tail: golden pheasant neck feathers or Amherst pheasant neck feathers.
• Body: 1 mm two or single color foam. Dubbing can be used as an alternative. A variety of color can be used.
• Hackle: brown or red.
• Wing: Siberian brown bear hair or grizzly bear hair.
• Head: 2 mm foam – brown, tan, or gray.
• Mandible: Ostrich plumes or peacock herl.
• Legs: brown rubber, Flexi-floss, Silli Legs, or Spanflex.
• Indicator: 2 mm foam.

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Other Patterns by Boots Allen: Boots Allen's Peacock

Boots Allen is a third generation guide and outfitter from Western Wyoming. Over the last 18 years, he has had the opportunity to fish and guide at destinations around the world, including Argentina, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Costa Rica, British Columbia, and the streams of the Rocky Mountain West. He has pened numerous articles for fly fishing magazines such as Fly Tyer, The Fly Fishing and Tying Journal, The Drake, and Sports Afield. Boots has used his creations at the fly tying vise for a variety of game fish including taimen, pike, lenok, sea-run brown trout, steelhead, pacific salmon, snook, roosterfish, redfish, and almost every imaginable species of trout.

You can contact Boots at the Snake River Angler

RECIPE:

• Hook: Mustad 34011, Size 1/0; or Dai Riki #710, Size 4
• Thread: Red 3/0 Flat Wax Nylon
• Tail: Amber or Copper Krystal Flashabou
• Body: Krystal Flash Chenille
• Wing: Two Married Strips of Peacock Sword
• Beard: Angel Hair