AuSable Bomber

The AuSable Bomber is a high-floating, deer-hair dry fly originally tied for the turbulent pocket water of the Adirondacks’ AuSable River. Built with a stacked deer-hair body, calf-tail wings, and a buoyant hackle collar, the Bomber rides high even in broken water where more delicate ties collapse. It imitates a broad range of food forms—large caddis, stoneflies, terrestrials, and even drowning mayflies

Curated by the IdentaFly fly fishing team.

Trim the underside of the body slightly concave rather than flat.This creates a subtle “keel effect,” helping the Bomber land upright more consistently and track straighter in mixed currents—an advantage most anglers never think to build into the fly.