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Best Trout Flies — proven patterns that actually catch fish.
There’s no mystery to good trout flies: realistic profiles, solid hooks, and the right size for the hatch. These patterns have earned their spot in guides’ boxes. Whether you fish dry flies on top, beadhead nymphs below, or swing streamers in deep water, this page pulls together our most consistent trout producers.
Customer favorites: Elk Hair Caddis • BH Copper John• BWO • Parachute Adams • BH Woolly Bugger
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The most asked for pattern in history. Rivals the Woolly Bugger as the most versatile pattern of all-time. Every game fish imaginable, smallmouths...
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You can tell how effective a pattern is by the spin-offs it has, and this one has a lot in a short time. These occurrences are a catalyst for tr...
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THE adult caddis imitation. Floats extremely well in rough water, durable, and deadly. Yep this is in everyone's Top Ten trout flies.
All the infamous traits of the Beadhead Hare's Ear, but with a Tungsten Bead Head for faster sink rates. Still the #1 nymph in the world and with ...
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Representing the most common of trout food sources, the midges. AKA Chironomids. It has been estimated that up to 22% of a trout's diet is compo...
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A cross between the pheasant tail and brassie. Works well where ever there are stonefly or mayfly nymphs. Classic profile, sinks fast, sleek, an...
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Representing the most common of trout food sources, the midges. AKA Chironomids. It has been estimated that up to 22% of a trout's diet is compose...
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Fish love eggs. They will eat them indiscriminately. Not just steelhead and salmon either, every fish wil eat any eggs. Don't go to Alaska without...
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Squirmy Worms are made of a silicon that creates a more realistic look than other patterns out there. Undulate better than the typical San Juan Wo...
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A great imitation of a smaller adult salmonfly, very prolific during the summer months. The little yellow sally is a staple on many stream through...
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This pattern is often the answer when fish refuse everything else in your box while dimpling the surface. When trout are sipping the small stuff,...
View full detailsThis pattern is sometimes controversial because it has the word "worm" in it. But this is not the garden variety type worm, but an aquatic worm, ...
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Use this pattern everywhere fish live! Works great for all game fish including Steelhead, Salmon, Trophy Trout, Bass, you name it. Tied with that...
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Beadhead Hare’s Ear Fly The Beadhead Hare’s Ear is one of the most versatile and reliable nymph patterns ever tied—and for good reason. Built to im...
View full detailsElk Hair Caddis with a CDC under wing. Add flutter and buoyancy. Floats extremely well in rough water, durable, and deadly. A nice addition to...
View full detailsEphemerella invaria, throughout the Midwest and many other regions as well, this is THE hatch to fish. The duns take flight fairly quickly, but be...
View full detailsThe Green Drake hatch is legendary in many places. When it is on, don't be without these. Perhaps no fly causes more confusion than this one, many...
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Excellent pattern for many light colored mayflies including, Pale Morning Dun, Red Quills, Pale Evening Duns, Pale Watery Duns, and Spur Wings. Al...
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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...
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There are those flies that anglers constantly go to as they hook the vast majority of their trout. The Bread 'n Butter is one of those flies. Gre...
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Still the #1 nymph in the world and with good reason. Buggy, flashy, suggestive of a plethora of nymphs. The more it is fished the buggier it get...
View full detailsA great emerger, dun, or cripple pattern. These flies ride low, have a trailing shuck, are easy to cast and see. Two excellent colors, for a plet...
View full detailsMovement is enticing to trophy trout (and we don't mean dinky trophies) Nearly identical to the famous Sex Dungeon (the name hurts the search resu...
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Ants are more important food source than most fly anglers realize. Ants are extremely available to fish on ice free waters in the Rockies, Cascade...
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