Dry Flies

A classic pattern from England designed to imitate the Grannom hatch, sometimes referred to as the Mothers Day Caddis. This much-anticipated hatch...

Cottonwood seeds? What eats that? How about carp and big ole brown trout. Carp regularly take cottonwood seeds during the late spring and early su...

Extended bodies are great for creating a larger body without using a large hook. A cdc post, backed by a white wing help a make this pattern visib...

A spinner body type with a parachute style wing. Makes this one highly visible fly that looks incredibly vulnerable to a passing by fish. Additi...

This caddis pattern can be fished most, if not all year, with great success. Meant to mimic a caddis fly, it can be fished as a standard dry, or ...

A hitch of the legendary pattern. If you want a fast water fly this is one for your fly box. All Wulff style flies float extremely well, and this ...

Trout that live in streams that flow through forests, hit these all summer long. Use this pattern from around the end of July to late September. ...

An incredible dry salmonfly pattern. Excellent for use with a dropper, fish multiple water columns at one time. Many western rivers hit their peak...

Famed on Idaho's Henry's Fork High and long floating, excellent wing silhouette Invented in the 70's by Mike Lawson named after Jack Hemingway

There is something about the way fish see red and purple that just entices them.  There aren’t a ton of insects that naturally show these color...

Adams is the most popular dry fly of all time This style is tied with a Trude style down to give it a more attraction quality Excellent for small...

Excellent pattern for many light colored mayflies including Pale Morning Dun, Red Quills, Pale Evening Duns, Pale Watery Duns, and Spur Wings. If ...

Cripples are mayflies that never completed their emergence. Incredibly popular when hatches are going off and the fish don’t seem to be finding y...

A great looking caddis pattern that has been gaining popularity across the globe. Floats high, (hard to sink) and has a sharp, barbless hook! Gree...

Adult damsel imitation that works wonders on many lakes. In blue, one of the most popular dragon fly/damsel colors

Infamous in Michigan especially on the AuSable and Manistee Rivers. Excellent for the Hex and other larger hatches. Excellent for all pale colored...

Deadly Effective. Strikingly Realistic. Designed to ride low in the water with the body suspended just below the surface film, the Klinkhammer Dry ...

Bullet Head dry flies are extremely popular due to their ability to float high and create one of the more realistic body profiles. This one is a ...

Effective in all types of water, and fished in all different ways. One of those do everything patterns, a standard in Arizona, for trout, blu...

A widespread mayfly hatch.  These insects can emerge from March through September in many locations.  Callibaetis can emerge in various colors, fr...

High floating fly that is sure to handle the roughest of waters Works well as an attractor or during terrestrial hatches.

This pattern comes from our 2023 fly-tying photo contest.   The October caddis is our last big hatch every fall in the west. From Alaska to Califo...

Adams is the most popular dry fly of all time.  This version has the wings laid down near on the side to imitate a late-stage mayfly. Great for c...

Also called the Carolina Wulff. Yellow floss is used for the body. Another twist on the all-time classic.

Great attractor pattern, often out fishes other attractors. Developed by Charles Meck. Great for dropper set-up.

This sparkly, foamy ant also doubles as a beetle. The multi colored foam indicator top aids the angler in picking out the dark backed bug in the fo...

Great Salmon Fly pattern that is sure to produce. Big fly that is sure to handle the roughest of waters. Foam to unsure it doesn't sink and no fl...

Ingenious design keeps this offering hanging in the surface film, where midges often get trapped.  Trapped emergers are a buffet line trout just ...

Redesigned and updated. Sure to be most effective during Brown Drake hatches, but useful during other drake, and march brown hatches as well. A na...

Excellent for the Gray Fox hatch of West Virginia and other places. Will cover the hendrickson hatch. March Browns, Mahogany and Grey Fox hatch o...

Adult damsel imitation that works wonders on many lakes. In the most popular dragon fly/damsel colors

While this pattern has been around for a while, one of our beloved local customers keeps raiding his old guide boxes and leaving his version for u...

Infamous fly in Alaska and Idaho and you name it. Great low visibility fly, lots of high floating, durability, attractive qualities. Try it, y...

This fly was designed to be buoyant, will fish all day long. The March Brown is the first riffle-hatching mayfly of the season in the west.   The ...

A simple, elegant caddis pattern that works well for the snootiest trout. A spring creek destroyer A low-profile fly is often the best option for ...

A sparsely dressed PMD for when that type of fly is necessary. Great for waters with finicky trout, or when fish are over-pressured.

An extremely effective bream pattern. Developed for the Llano River, TX by Austin fishing guru Kevin Hutchinson This little critter catches bass, ...

Hex spinner falls can be more dramatic than the hatch. Spinners can float for a long time, often trout will be hitting spinners and there will be ...

Pink Ladies aren't near as common as a bwo or pmd, and are often mistaken for them. However, when they are hatching you can bet that a mayfly imit...

Has become the go-to Eastern Green Drake spinner pattern. Designed to be fished where the Ephemera guttulata calls home, but also a great searchin...

Invented in Idaho in 1906, quickly earned a reputation of catching large trout. Infamous in big western waters. Floats high and through the rou...

Thorax flies are designed for smoother sections of water, where a bushier fly isn't need to keep it afloat. The bottom part of the hackle is tr...

Not always on the water, but when they are the fish are always biting. Emerger patterns are great for the time of day when the hatch hasn't yet st...

Our local favorite Callibaetis pattern. It crushes nice trout on our local lakes. A very precise imitation. We experience a callibaetis hatc...

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...

An extremely effective bream pattern. Crystal chenille/foam body and rubber legs keep this pattern incredibly simplistic while creating attraction...

Ephemerella invaria, throughout the Midwest and many other regions as well, this is THE hatch to fish. When fish are ultra selective and pressure...

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,...