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These flies get their name from the Tutu, the short skirt worn by female ballet dancers

The Lifejacket Nymph is tied with 2mm diameter silicone gasket foam

The Taco Emerger was inspired by the split case patterns which are popular in the US

Inspiration for a new fly design can come from anywhere. The May West is an example of a combination of materials that came together to create a new fly

An extended body caddis pupa tied with latex ribbon - the al dente tagliatelle of fly tying materials.

A simple and very hard-to-sink emerger from Russian Dmitri Tseliaritski

The large mayflies are a summer phenomenon, but it might be worth reading up on off season.

This emerger is great for smaller, slower streams and has proven a very successful pattern for the author. It's tied the paraloop way with no hackle under the hook.

To tie Andrew Herd's Bat Fly, you will need a packet of Polo mints, a pair of shears and a full-bore rifle.

Hans Weilenmann's CDC & Elk is a fly as good as they come. Still a lot of people - including Hans himself and the author of this article - have made variations. The article covers a whole bunch of CDC & Elk variations.

This fly is similar in outline to many existing caddis patterns, but has features unlike any caddis emerger pattern the originator has seen. It's based not so much on looking exactly like the real thing, but trying to get a fly to act like it.

The idea of Joe Kissane's Miscellanea Emerger is based on the idiom of "throwing in everything but the kitchen sink; however, he couldn't justify the length of "everything but the kitchen sink" for a pattern name, and someone told him that the name Kitchen Sink was already used 

See Steve tie the Tabou Caddis Emerger.

Made with only two materials, this highly effective caddis emerger pattern will take only minutes to tie and allow you to load up your fly box with the Global FlyFisher's hottest new pattern.

Wow. Three hundred and forty four pages of emergers. Leeson and Schollmeyer have done it again.