In 1960, Nearly 20 years after Jim Leisenring’s christening of the flymph , Don Dubois published “The Fisherman’s Handbook of Trout Flies,” an impressive text that created an identification system that categorized nearly 6000 fly patterns. Within this text are found 4 patters that are named for streams and regions of the Poconos, including the Swiftwater, the Analomink, the Cresco, and the Paradise. Each of these patterns has several variations as well which are also listed, combining for a total of 11 flies. While I can’t find a direct link for all of these patterns to the Pocono region, I think it is a logical assumption to believe that they did in fact originate here, or at the very least are connected with the region due to their namesake. The flies I could specifically connect to the region are the Swiftwater and the Analomink. The Swiftwater, which appears in Bergman’s Trout, was tied by Fred Brown and named for the Swiftwater Creek which feeds into the Brodhead in Henryville. Its appearance in Trout places the origin of the fly some time before 1938. The Analomink is credited to Leisenring and named for the Analomink section of the Brodhead by some sources. The wide degree of documented variations of these patterns attests to the process of fly development and evolution that the exceptional fishery of the Poconos has spurred.

Below is a table describing the 11 patterns as they appear in the Handbook. The key beneath the table clarifies the abbreviations used in the text.