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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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Barr's Emerger BWO

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Excellent pattern when fish are on the surface but not hitting the duns. Trailing shuck make this a great pattern to cast upstream, and allow to ...

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Griffith Gnat CDC

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Fish this pattern to finicky fish for all the same reasons you would grab the regular Griffith Gnat. Also has the life like attributes of CDC. No ...

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Scud-Beadhead

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Scuds are a vital food source for trout. Scuds live in slack waters of rivers, and are the #1 food source in many lakes that hold trophy sized ...

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Parachute Pale Morning Dun – Mayfly Dry Fly

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The Pale Morning Dun or PMD is a great hatch throughout the West. Massive numbers trigger greedy feeding, and action that is not likely to be forg...

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WD-40

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This pattern was designed to be an emerging midge, is also excellent for small emerging mayflies including the prolific baetis or Blue Wing Olive...

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Griffith Gnat Hi Vis

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An even easier to see version of the Griffith Gnat.  This extremely popular and useful pattern is a must for any dry fly aficionado. Whether it b...

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Flying Ant

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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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Midges

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This pattern deserves a large spot in your vest.  Excellent year around choice for tiny BWO's, PMD's, and midges. Many of which hatch throughout t...

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Barbless Blue Wing Olive

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The most precise Blue Wing Olive or Beatis pattern out there. Rides high and true to fool the most wary of fish. When you see tiny 'sailboats' on...

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Caddis Emerger

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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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Caddis Emerger-Beadhead

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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...

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San Juan Worm-Beadhead

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Beadhead 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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Atomic Pheasant Tail-Beadhead

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A pheasant tail imitation of some kind seems to be the go to nymph for many trout fisherman. Imitating a plethora of mayflies pheasant tails tend ...

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Pheasant Tail Emerger-Beadhead

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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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Barbless Beadhead Flashback Pheasant Tail

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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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Blue Quill

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A 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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Flashback Hare's Ear - Tungsten

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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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Midge Hi-Vis

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A midge pattern with a hi-viz (high visibility) post so you can actually see it. Especially in low light conditions. Tied on a klinkhammer styled ...

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WD-40 Flash-Beadhead

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The WD-40 is responsible for catching millions of fish throughout the US and beyond. This small midge pattern has been found to be quite effectiv...

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Foam Beetle

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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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Barbless Beadhead Pheasant Tail

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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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Parachute Sulphur

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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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Anatomical PMD/Baetis - Beadhead

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Skip Morris' solution to highly selective or pressurized trout. These two slender nymphs are often mistaken for each other, fish where either or p...

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Flashback Hare's Ear-Beadhead

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