Bill
Dorgeloh
Virginia
I
returned to fly fishing for trout and fly tying after a 40 year layoff.
Started to fly fish in New Jersey in my early teens.
I have lived in Virginia since 1969 and spent a lot of time fishing for largemouth and smallmouth bass with spinning and casting gear.
I fished B.A.S.S. tournaments professionally in the 80's. Never had much success but got to fish lakes all over the east from Lake Ontario to Lake Ockechobee and west to Truman reservoir in Missouri and Sam Rayburn in Texas. Had a great time, but now appreciating the more relaxed, less competitive fly fishing for native brook trout in the small mountain streams of Virginia. I also fish Penns Creek and the Little Juniata in Pennsylvania quite a lot as I have relatives in the area.
Pictured at left is Bill's big Ontario Brown he caught in 2007. Oh yea... That is also Bill holding it.
I find it great fun to catch fish on flies I have tied, and I enjoy learning new techniques. I have met and fished with many of the people I have met through tying boards and the internet, including Ed Gallop. My fly tying is only into it's second year and I find tying relaxing and challenging at the same time.
Note by Ed Gallop:
The fly shown on the right is a Winter's Hope salmon fly that Bill tied recently
(2004). He did a wonderful job.
Not only is Bill an excellent tier and angler, he's a great fishing companion. I don't usually comment about my angling friends on this site but would like to point out something I find an inspiration to all over the hill anglers.
According to Bill's
age he might be considered over the hill but he's far from
it. He broke his leg playing hockey with a bunch of younger
guys earlier this year (2002). As soon as he could get around he asked me to go
fishing with him in a rugged mountain spring creek. Knowing he was limping around with a metal pin in his bone,
using an old hockey stick for a crutch, I
suggested an easier access trout river. No... Bill wanted to fish
for brookies in that tough
mountain spring creek. I was amazed at his
ability to climb and maneuver those thick rhododendrons on that rugged mountain for about 3 miles and end up
in much better condition than I was. 
Pictured at right is Bill holding his beautiful bonefish caught while in St Thomas, Virgin Islands.
Select a fly below:
Be sure to visit our on-line store at http://www.flytyingworld.com/angling/index.html
Tier: Bill
Dorgeloh
Select
a fly below: Return to Bill's
Introduction.
Tier: Bill
Dorgeloh
Thread:
Yellow or light colored (8/0) Uni-thread Tied in 1/4 inch behind hook Body:
Yellow ultra chenille (reverse wound from rear forward to within
1/4 inch of eye). Hackle: Palmer brown or ginger hackle through chenille
then clip to hook gape Wing Case:
Turkey feather slip coated with head cement and rounded on one end. Tie in at end of
chenille back of hook eye.
Legs:
Six or seven pheasant tail fibers knotted then tied on both sides of wing.
Collar:
Tips of deer-hair head fibers ( tips almost to hook point length).
Select
a fly below: Return to Bill's
Introduction.
Tier: Bill
Dorgeloh Adapted from Jim
Schollmeyer style.
Wing: Deer hair dyed purple and tied to flare. Butts cut off above eye. Select
a fly below: Return to Bill's
Introduction.
Tier: Bill
Dorgeloh
Head and Body:
Turned back elk hair 2½ to 3 times the hook length.
Choose extra long hairs and stack. Tie tips toward eye and push back
with half hitch tool to form head and tie down. Use fingers to evenly
space hairs over and around wing, binding to hook bend. Select
a fly below: Return to Bill's
Introduction.
Tier: Bill
Dorgeloh
Abdomen:
Four strands peacock herl. Select
a fly below: Return to Bill's
Introduction.
Tier: Bill
Dorgeloh
Select
a fly below: Return to Bill's
Introduction.
Tier: Bill
Dorgeloh
Tail:
Golden Pheasant tippet.
Body:
Peacock herl with red floss center.
Wing:
Calf Body Hair.
Hackle:
Brown.
Select
a fly below: Return to Bill's
Introduction.
Tier: Bill
Dorgeloh
This fly should
float flush with the surface film and the wing should be sparse enough to almost
look translucent. the tail should be splayed or split.
The sulfur
spinner works well on the Pennsylvania streams where I fish Select
a fly below: Return to Bill's
Introduction.
Tier: Bill Dorgeloh
I used a #1 Mustad 96890 with wine colored 6/0 thread. The body is
formed with medium metal flat tinsel. Then I use 3 wraps of silver doctor
hen hackle, 3 wraps purple hen hackle, and tie in a wing of married yellow and
orange quills. Top with olive deer tail and it should appear as the one
pictured on this page.
Note by Ed Gallop: Bill McMillan originated the Winter's Hope back in the
1970s as a steelhead fly. It has been over 30 years and the Winter's Hope
remains a favorite for steelheaders and even salmon anglers.
The original McMillan version was tied with red and yellow hackle streamer wings
and there were later hair-wing versions. However, Bill has combined the
hair-wing and feather-wing to make a married wing version that I think is more
attractive than any I have seen before. Nice job Bill.
Select
a fly below: Return to Bill's
Introduction.
Be sure to visit our on-line store at http://www.flytyingworld.com/angling/index.html 
for your tying needs.
Hook: Dry
fly size 14.
Thread: 6/0 Black.
Body: Thread over deer hair or add peacock herl.
Legs: Several butts of deer hair to sides before trimming
shellback.
Shell Back: Black deer hair tied back over body.
Hook: Mustad
94831, #10, 2x long dry fly hook.
eye and wound to tail.
Tail: Five or six red deer body hairs.
length.
Head: Spun and clipped deer hair.
Hook: Mustad 94840 #14.
Thread: Black 6/0.
Rib: Fine wire, counter wrapped.
Body: Dubbing of your choice. I used gray super fine.
Hackle: Light dun wrapped palmer style through body and counter wrapped
with wire.
Hook: Mustad
94831, Size 10, 2x long.
Thread: Yellow or tan 6/0.
Tail: Three moose mane hairs 2½ hook
length.
Wing: Yellow to tan mixed deer hair with yellow dyed deer hair and one
or two pieces of green or chartreuse Krystal Flash. Height = one hook length.
Extended Body: Form elk hair body with the moose main tail fibers
and then wrap in even segments about one hook length Wind
thread in same segments back to hook bend and up to wing.
Hackle: Olive dyed grizzly, oversized and wrapped thick.
Hook:
TMC 5263, #12.
Thread: Black 6/0.
Tail: Four pheasant tail fiber tips.
Underbody: Wraps of lead wire crushed to make flat body.
Rib #1 (gills): Black ostrich herl (clipped top and bottom).
Rib #2: Fine wire counter wrapped.
Dorsal Strip: Two strands Opal Mirage Flashabou.
Wing Case: Turkey tail feather slip treated with fixative
prior to use.
Thorax : Peacock herl.
Legs: Partridge feather tied under wing case.
Hook: TMC 100, #
16.
Thread: Light cahill 6/0.
Tail: Ginger hackle fibers.
Wing: Wood duck flank feathers.
Body: Super Fine light cahill dubbing.
Hackle: Ginger.
Hook: Dry
Fly.
Hook: Mustad
94840 #14.
Thread: Light Cahill Danville 6/0.
Wing: 1/3 of strand of Wapsi polypropylene floating yarn
light yellow.
Tail: Ginger hackle fibers (tie in split).
Hackle: Ginger.
Notes: The wing is tied in with figure 8's and kept flat,
about 5/4 hook shank
length wind the hackle for and aft of wing and then cut off top and bottom of
the hackle.
for your tying needs.