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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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Emerging caddis are a slow moving haphazard insect phase that are a treat for trout. One of our favorite all time emerger patterns. This patter...
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Emerging caddis are a slow moving haphazard insect phase that are a treat for trout. Now with a beadhead. Please note that this pattern is tan/r...
View full detailsBeadhead helps get this down earlier, and keep it down. Imitating anything from an annelid to an earthworm. Worms are always available food for fi...
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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, and ...
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The classic enhanced with crystal flash and variegated rubber legs. The hair wing and tail, and the two hackles give it plenty of floatation, add ...
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Like other parachutes the Parachute Hopper rides low in the water, is easy to see in low light. Hopper and other terrestrials make an easy high c...
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The Eastern March Brown differs slightly from the Western version. This pattern here has a lighter body and gray wings. Rithrogena Germanica,Sten...
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A killer little caddis pattern tied in just the right colors. A chartreuse body is made of quill body, then coated with UV Resin, making it "glow"...
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An excellent pattern for imitating all sorts of emerging mayfly nymphs. Combines the attributes of the beadhead nymph with the attributes of an ...
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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 twist on this classic pattern by Randall Kaufmann. Sometimes rubber legs will turn the tide to your favor. More lively action attracts vicious ...
View full detailsA 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...
View full detailsA great early season pattern, especially prominent in the NE and Central United States. Quill patterns make perhaps the best imitation for those e...
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CDC is one of our favorite materials for nymphs. It moves like mini marabou and looks incredible underwater. This pattern is tied much like a phea...
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Voted as one of the Top Ten Trout Flies in American Angler magazine. Beetles are loaded in protein, and fish recognize a nutritious treat when th...
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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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Absolute must pattern for the eastern United States, and a versatile enough color to be effective everywhere. Invararia, dorothea, are the scienti...
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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 vu...
View full detailsStonefly nymphs live in clean moving water, and are an important feeding source for both trout and steelhead. All the attributes of the Beadhead K...
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One can never have too many princes, one of those patterns where most fisherman have multiple various in there box. The Amber Prince has a wire w...
View full detailsOne of the first American designed dry flies. Named after Theodore Gordon, this pattern imitates one of the first hatches in eastern US, occurring...
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Great imitation for annelids, earthworms, aquatic worms. Plus a great attractor in murky waters. Fish like worms! If you have never seen an a...
View full detailsThis prolific hatching mayfly makes itself available to fish and fly fisher year around in many locations. A real fish producer. Wet flies are a s...
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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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