The Puffhead is an adaptation of Gary Lafontaines "Airhead". Essentially a modified Airhead. The Airhead was originally introduced to me by John Sanders as a swap fly. I thought that the fly was odd and really wanted to try it out on an upcoming Yellowstone trip. When I tried the fly on the Lamar river it did pretty well so that night I tied a few. I used a stonefly hook instead of the original (didn't have anything else). I didn't like all of the steps to tying the original fly so I eliminated cutting all of the foam strips the way Gary tied his. The dubbing material is different. Also the body and wing is done different.  The next day my brother and I tried the modified version and it did even better yet! In fact it did so well it was the only fly we used the whole rest of the trip. My brother said "I'ts a Puffhead"! It's actually the name a rock parody song I wrote about 14 years ago so we both got a laugh out it. The name stuck. I ended up tying a lot of those that trip. It's a very easy tie.

This is what you will need: Thin closed cell packing foam, Natural deer hair, Hairs ear dubbing (I've used many colors), White 6/0 thread, a hair stacker is handy.