Big Y Brand Flies

Effective on tailwaters. One of the new winter trout patterns. A Colorado favorite.

In the winter months chironomids and midges make up a good deal of a fishes food intake. This pattern is great for cold weather fishing, small and...

Midges are perhaps one of the most intimidating flies to fish with. They are small, hard to tie on a leader, and can be difficult to set the hook....

Midges are available all year round and in almost every river, an avid fisherman knows you need midges. This pattern is designed to replicate Midg...

CDC adds life like action to this prevalent insect. Always available, these are good anytime patterns to have in your fly box. Excellent as a drop...

As the weather cools midges become an ever more important food source for trout. The CDC Surface Midge is designed to float well as it is made en...

Great for emerging midge pupa. Always available, these are good anytime patterns to have in your fly box. Excellent as a dropper below an attracto...

A new pattern that provides a great alternative to heavily pressured fish. Imitates midges and small mayflies. A top producer when fish ignore s...

The Superhero's strike again with another great fly. The Green Lantern resembles a midge nymph with a "POW" of green in the thorax to make this ny...

A great midge pattern that is highly effective in the late fall through early spring.  A krystal flash tail and wingcase insure a highly visible f...

A great pattern for imitating the emerging mayfly. Beaded head which adds a slight amount of weight. The bubble back traps air which attract fish....

A prolific winter midge pattern on the San Juan River. That being said it has been quite effective on many tailwaters throughout the US. Desig...

Quite simply one of THE great hatches. Many, many anglers rely on this hatch to provide them with the bulk of their warm weather fish. Begins as e...

A favorite among the Rockies where this pattern originated. This pattern is somewhat like a Comparadun. Snowshoe rabbit foot is used as the wing d...

A great tail water, in two colors. Imitates a plethora of mayfly emergers. Flash wingcase adds to its effectiveness. One of those great do anythi...

Baetis are a extremely popular food source. This pattern is slim and flashy. Great in better much every column of water. Subsurface, deep down, or...

A super simplistic but effective dry fly pattern. Particularly useful during mayfly hatches when finicky trout are present.

Commonly used a nymph or an emerger. Use in surface film where all that great frenzied action takes place. Or sink it and use it as a nymph or dro...

This fly has recorded excellent results in Yellowstone all the way through Michigan. Fish it early and fish it late, fish it when the PMD's are...

Excellent little mayfly pattern that represents both BWO's and PMD's. Also know as the Bat Wing Emerger, due to the wing case resemblance. Fish ...

A very prevalent and prolific summer hatch.  Little Black Caddis can dominate the afternoon summer dry fly action on many rivers. 

Dubbed Money Midge as this fly produces fish. A great pattern for tailwaters, or as a dropper. Brown in color with an ice dub head to draw attenti...

Tied with CDC this pattern originated as a Sedge (caddis) emerger from Europe. Great for small dark caddis or sedge. Floats without the aid of ...

This pattern is a very popular midge imitation throughout the trout fly fishing world, bead color matches body. American Angler estimates midges a...

A new twist on the coveted hatch. The Tank Trico has just a few slight changes to the traditional trico that can make all the difference. The most...

Blue wing olives are one of the most iconic hatches. Fly fisherman relish them as do the fish. Being so popular this one hatch has created a pleth...

A customer request, the Camden Baetis is great mayfly imitation. Made specifically for the prolific BWO hatches that most fly fisherman feverish a...

A great little emerger/midge pattern that is sure to work wonders in rivers, lakes, and ponds. A black tungsten bead is used for some weight and t...

Ingenious design keeps this offering hanging in the surface film, where midges often get trapped.  Trapped emergers are a buffet line trout just ...

The attractor midge has a flashy abdomen and a double wrapped rib. Gray midges are under used and incredibly prevalent especially in the Sierra's.

This pattern is brought to us from one of our wholesale customers who raves of its success throughout the Midwest. An excellent mayfly imitation,...

Cripples are mayflies that never completed their emergence. Incredibly popular when hatches are going off and the fish don’t seem to be finding y...

This wet fly pattern works well in a dead drift or on the swing. A glass bead is used to prop up the hackle and give it a bigger look that typical...

A new version of the trico that is going to be a difference-maker! We added a small bead to get it just under the surface.  Silver ribbing adds t...

The little mayfly that produces so many big fish. These nymphs are terrible swimmers, much to the delight of waiting trout. Trico hatches tend tow...

As mentioned in the above pattern midges are becoming a more important food source for fish. Luckily nymphs tend to be a tad more effective than ...

It is the subtleties that make be the difference between a great day of fishing and a mediocre one. Mike's Midge Pupa looks very similar to many a...

Excellent pattern for midge hatches, and cripples and emergers. Excellent visibility. Floats in the surface film for a long time. Fish in b...

This pattern is fished for everything from Browns to Cutthroats, it is a fantastically effective pattern, as it hangs in the surface film, imitati...

Blue Winged Olives are the most important food source for trout. BWOs hatch from early fall through late spring and provide many trout with the bu...