Simms G3 Waders, Wading Shoes, Silveynator Flies 

Brian Silvey is an amazingly talented fly tier. Tandem Tube Flies, Tube Snakes, caddis emergers and dries of all kinds that solve problems and produce fish.  Most recently the “Silvanator”,  a get down in the holding zone quick fly.  Idylwilde claims, "The mania surrounding this fly is like nothing ever seen in the fly fishing world.  When Silvey arrives at the boat ramps at O-Dark-Thirty it’s like a Beatles concert with throngs of fans all trying to get an autograph and a free Silveynator sample! Screaming men and women going ape for Mr. Silvey. A security guard is probably going to be in the mans future, especially when launching at Dodge Park. The popularity is par with Justin Bieber." Above is a sample of why no one ever beats Brian to the next fishing hole.

Silveynator

Just like its namesake the Terminator this pattern kicks ass! 

Brian Silvey an obsessive fly tinkerer who can never leave well enough alone.  He is on a life long quest to find perfection in fly patterns.  Something that he knows is not possible but that doesn’t stop him from trying and

The Silveynator is the newest attempt and making something great even better.  It all started with Silvey’s Tandem Tubes.  A pattern that was designed to:

§       Have a large presence in the water to entice lethargic winter fish to move to a swung fly.

§       Be an easy to cast fly pattern for beginners to experts.

§       Suspend the hook at the tail of the fly to eliminate missed takes.  (Something anglers feared when fishing larger tube flies with the hook possibly dangling away from the materials)

The Silvanator adopts most of the concepts that make the Tandem Tube so effective and adopted them to a smaller fly for targeting summer fish on a dry line as well as late winter fish when waters are warmer and lower. 

Silvey chose to use a single tube for this smaller fly because the fly is small and having the hook right puts it right where the fish take.  By using a single tube this fly is much simpler to rig than the Tandem tubes and also offers the angler a variety of rigging methods.

1.  The eye of a straight eyed hook can be pulled right into the junction tubing that comes standard.  The angler merely threads his tipped through the tube, ties his preferred knot and then pulls the hook eye into the junction tubing.

2.  Or, an upturned Octopus style hook can be used by rigging a small loop.  Thread the leader through the Tube tie a small loop, thread the loop through the eye of the hook and pull the knot of the loop into the junction tubing.

Fishing

The Silveynator is designed to be fished on either a dry line or sink tip.  This fly gets down FAST.  The bead head is heavier than a cone and due to the choice of materials resistance is minimal.  Once put under tension the fly has fantastic movement and is usually finds itself right in the living room Mr. Chrome!