BWO or Baetis
Blue Wing Olive hatches are one of the most consistent and important mayfly hatches for trout, especially in spring and fall.
Best Flies for the Blue Wing Olive (BWO) Hatch
Best time: Overcast days, late morning to afternoon
Season: Spring and fall (can occur year-round)
Water: Slow to moderate currents, tailwaters, spring creeks
Trout behavior: Selective feeding on small mayflies and emergers
Match your fly to trout behavior—dry flies for surface feeding, emergers for selective fish, and nymphs when trout are feeding below.
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Blue Wing Olive - Mayfly Dry Fly
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Parachute Blue Wing Olive - Mayfly Dry Fly
$0.98Original price $1.09Original price $1.09 - Original price $1.09Original price $1.09$0.98 - $0.98Current price $0.98| /BWO is one of the most prolific and long lived hatches. This versatile color can also cover both the Pale Morning Dun and Pale Evening Dun. If you...
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Flashback Pheasant Tail-Beadhead
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Pheasant Tail-Beadhead
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Barr's Emerger BWO-Beadhead
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Sparkle Duns Dry Fly
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Barr's Emerger BWO
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Pheasant Tail - Tungsten
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Barbless Blue Wing Olive - Mayfly Dry Fly
$1.07Original price $1.19Original price $1.19 - Original price $1.19Original price $1.19$1.07 - $1.07Current price $1.07| /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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Flashback Pheasant Tail
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Atomic Pheasant Tail-Beadhead
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Pheasant Tail Emerger-Beadhead
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Barbless Beadhead Flashback Pheasant Tail
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Split Case Emerger - Tungsten
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Barbless Parachute Blue Wing Olive
$1.07Original price $1.19Original price $1.19 - Original price $1.19Original price $1.19$1.07 - $1.07Current price $1.07| /Overview: One of the most prolific and long lived hatches. This versatile color can also cover both the Pale Morning Dun and Pale Evening Dun. If ...
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Blue Wing Olive Thorax - Mayfly Dry Fly
$0.89Original price $0.99Original price $0.99 - Original price $0.99Original price $0.99$0.89 - $0.89Current price $0.89| /Thorax style flies feature a single wing, and more hackling. Often fished with a 'V' cut in the bottom hackle to allow it ride lower. Proponents o...
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Juju Beatis Flashback
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Flashback Pheasant Tail Curved Hook-Beadhead
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Mercury Flashback Pheasant Tail
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Foam Post Emerger BWO
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Comparadun
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Parachute Blue Wing Olive Blue Dun Post - Mayfly Dry Fly
$0.98Original price $1.09Original price $1.09 - Original price $1.09Original price $1.09$0.98 - $0.98Current price $0.98| /One of the most prolific and long lived hatches. Presented here with a blue dun post, to closer match the wing of the natural. If you have never f...
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Baetis Cripple - Mayfly Dry Fly
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Pink Pheasant Tail - Beadhead
$0.89Original price $0.99Original price $0.99 - Original price $0.99Original price $0.99$0.89 - $0.89Current price $0.89| /Designed as a mayfly pattern, the pink pheasant tail is meant to take that extra leap past the Egan's Frenchie in attraction. Pink and purple are ...
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Emerger BWO-Beadhead
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CDC Biot BWO Thorax - Mayfly Dry Fly
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Juju Baetis Tungsten - Umpqua
$3.38Original price $3.75Original price $3.75 - Original price $3.75Original price $3.75$3.38 - $3.38Current price $3.38| /One of the most infamous baetis patterns in history. This pattern has been one of the top producers of picky fish across North America. Baetis are ...
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Spinner BWO - Mayfly Dry Fly
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Bead Wing Midge - Solitude
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Baetis Dun - Mayfly Dry Fly
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Baetis Zinger - Mayfly Dry Fly
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Mighty Baetis
$0.89Original price $0.99Original price $0.99 - Original price $0.99Original price $0.99$0.89 - $0.89Current price $0.89| /BWO's hatch virtually year around. They are a major workhorse in trout fly fishing. The black bead puts different movement and adds to the emergin...
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Mole Fly - Mayfly Dry Fly
$0.98Original price $1.09Original price $1.09 - Original price $1.09Original price $1.09$0.98 - $0.98Current price $0.98| /A super simplistic but effective dry fly pattern. Particularly useful during mayfly hatches when finicky trout are present.
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BWO Poxyback
$0.89Original price $0.99Original price $0.99 - Original price $0.99Original price $0.99$0.89 - $0.89Current price $0.89| /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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Bread Line Emerger
$0.89Original price $0.99Original price $0.99 - Original price $0.99Original price $0.99$0.89 - $0.89Current price $0.89| /When mayflies are hatching, fish will readily target emergers as the hatch begins. Fish commonly wait as nymphs wonder from the depths to the surf...
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Bear Baetis Nymph
$0.89Original price $0.99Original price $0.99 - Original price $0.99Original price $0.99$0.89 - $0.89Current price $0.89| /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...
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Green Lantern
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Film Critic - Umpqua
$3.32Original price $3.69Original price $3.69 - Original price $3.69Original price $3.69$3.32 - $3.32Current price $3.32| /Bob Quigley, the king of the "film” designed the Film Critic to match mayflies at their most vulnerable stage of the hatch, while emerging from nym...
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Darth Baetis - Umpqua
$3.23Original price $3.59Original price $3.59 - Original price $3.59Original price $3.59$3.23 - $3.23Current price $3.23| /This juicy little Baetis pattern produces fish under the spookiest of circumstances. From Colorado to Maine, baetis nymphs are a huge source of foo...
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Camden Baetis - Glass Bead
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Cripple Thor - Mayfly Dry Fly
$0.89Original price $0.99Original price $0.99 - Original price $0.99Original price $0.99$0.89 - $0.89Current price $0.89| /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...
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Missing Link Mercer's - Umpqua
$3.23Original price $3.59Original price $3.59 - Original price $3.59Original price $3.59$3.23 - $3.23Current price $3.23| /The Missing Link is that fly that works even when when the hatch might be not quite as expected. You may have thought PMDs were going to pop today,...
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Slim Pickens-Beadhead
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Christiaens' GT Adult - Montana Fly Co - Mayfly Dry Fly
$2.93Original price $3.25Original price $3.25 - Original price $3.25Original price $3.25$2.93 - $2.93Current price $2.93| /It's a great all-around mayfly dry The klinkhammer-style curved hook leaves much of the fly's body under the surface, represents a struggling emer...
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Slam Dunk BWO
$0.89Original price $0.99Original price $0.99 - Original price $0.99Original price $0.99$0.89 - $0.89Current price $0.89| /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...
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Slim Pickens
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Parachute Extended Body BWO - Solitude - Mayfly Dry Fly
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Blue Wing Olive (BWO) hatches often bring out selective trout, especially on pressured rivers and tailwaters. Matching size, profile, and presentation is usually the difference between refusals and eats. Most BWO fishing happens in sizes 16–20, with emergers outfishing dries when trout are feeding subtly in the film. Target softer seams, eddies, and slower edges during active hatches.
BWO hatches peak in spring and fall and are strongest during overcast or rainy weather. These mayflies can hatch multiple times a year and often produce longer, more consistent windows than other mayflies.
Trout key in on specific stages of the insect, so adjust your flies as their behavior shifts. Use dries when fish are rising confidently, switch to RS2s or emergers during subtle sips, and downsize if fish are refusing your presentation.