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Best Selling Trout Flies

Best Selling Trout Flies

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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Elk Hair Caddis Brown dry fly for trout fishing from Big Y Fly Co
Elk Hair Caddis Black dry fly for trout fishing from Big Y Fly Co

Elk Hair Caddis

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The Elk Hair Caddis is a must-have dry fly that imitates adult caddisflies skating and drifting across the surface. It’s one of the most dependable...

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Big Y Fly Co-Parachute Adams-Dry Fly

Parachute Adams

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The Parachute Adams is one of the most versatile and trusted dry flies ever created, designed to imitate a wide range of mayflies in both dun and e...

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Big Y Fly Co-Chubby Chernobyl Olive-ry Fly
Big Y Fly Co-Chubby Chernobyl Brown-Dry FLy

Chubby Chernobyl

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Description The Chubby Chernobyl is one of the most versatile and reliable dry flies ever designed for western rivers. Built with a high-floating f...

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Beadhead Woolly Bugger black_orange – Big Y Fly Co
Beadhead Woolly Bugger black – Big Y Fly Co

Woolly Bugger-Beadhead

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The Woolly Bugger with a beadhead is one of the most effective and versatile flies ever created, built to get down quickly and trigger aggressive e...

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Stimulator

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This pattern was designed by Randall Kaufmann, borrowing liberally from the Improved Sofa Pillow and Bucktail Caddis. The Stimulator has become on...

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Copper John-Beadhead

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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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Adams

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The Adams is one of the most successful dry fly patterns of all time. Can be used to imitate a plethora of mayfly hatches, including baetis, call...

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Prince Nymph-Beadhead

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Everyone's favorite nymph and not just for trout. Iridescent peacock and those marvelous white wings, and split tail, combine to make this a great...

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Woolly Bugger

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Voted in the Top Ten of all-time Trout Flies in American Angler Magazine. A must pattern for all fly fishers, works on all game fish including Tro...

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Pat's Rubber Legs

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Although found in the UNWEIGHTED collection, This is LIGHTLY weighted with lead-free wire wraps.  Typically, 6 wraps of .015" lead-free wire.  this...

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Frenchie Nymph-Tungsten

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A great all purpose nymph. It simple profile and tungsten beadhead keep it rolling on the bottom and make it simply irresistible. While Pink is th...

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Pheasant Tail

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A classic nymph, peacock thorax, slender pheasant tail body. The wire rib presents a nice segmented look, in addition to adding flash and durabili...

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Flashback Pheasant Tail-Beadhead

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A great improvement on this all-time classic pattern. Many nymphs take on a very shiny appearance right before emerging. Trout key in on this vuln...

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Royal Wulff

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If you want a fast water fly this is one for your fly box. All Wulff style flies float extremely well, and this version is easy to see. The Royal ...

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Pheasant Tail-Beadhead

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One of the top five trout nymphs ever tied on a tippet. A near perfect imitation of the blue wing olive nymph, also works great for a general mayf...

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Hare's Ear - Tungsten

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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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Copper John

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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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Glo Bug

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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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Yellow Sally

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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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San Juan Worm

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This 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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Hare's Ear-Beadhead

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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...

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Green Drake

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The 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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Hare's Ear

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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...

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Fat Albert

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Ever see a dessert cart, and want something without knowing what it is? The Fat Albert might be a dessert cart for trout. Like the Chernobyl ...

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