Emergers & Cripples

Flymphs have been around longer than most fly fishers realize. First coined by Pete Hidy in 1941, it is simply a floating nymph.  With today's cla...

Flymphs have been around longer than most fly fishers realize. First coined by Pete Hidy in 1941, it is simply a floating nymph.  With today's c...

Flymphs have been around longer than most fly fishers realize. First coined by Pete Hidy in 1941, it is simply a floating nymph.  With today's cla...

Yet another innovative pattern, that erases the boundaries of traditional dry fly thinking. And to the benefit of all fly fishers. Similar to the...

Yet another innovative pattern, that erases the boundaries of traditional dry fly thinking. And to the benefit of all fly fishers. Similar to th...

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 ...

Fish are opportunistic feeders the quickest, easiest, and biggest meal is the one they are generally going to be attracted to first. With this in ...

This pattern has great action and attraction.  Use for the nymph and emerger, as the poxyback imitates the shine the wingcase takes on right befor...

Excellent general emerger pattern for pale colored mayflies, caddis flies, or to just swing or drift in the surface film when it's difficult to te...

Harrop’s CDC Biot Emerger BWO – Solitude When trout key on Blue Winged Olives just before they break the surface, few patterns are as effective as ...

Here is an innovation from the vise of legendary tyer Phil Camera, inventor of Larva Lace. We sampled this pattern last summer during the caddis h...

This mayfly is a staple of a trout's diet.Particularly prevalent in the mid-west and east. Sink it a bit or float it in the film. A great hatch; ...

A low riding emerger caddis pattern.  A unique wing and body structure entices strikes when others won't. Favorite at Yellowstone.

There is magic in the Zeppelin Caddis. Have you ever been in a blizzard caddis hatch, with fish porpoising all over but ignoring your fly? They are...

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

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

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...

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...

This pattern is fished for everything from Browns to Cutthroats, it is a fantastically effective pattern, as it hangs in the surface film, imitati...

Cripples are a great option just as a hatch starts. The March Brown cripple is specifically designed to be fished during March Brown hatches. Rit...

Commonly used a nymph or an emerger. Use in surface film where all that great frenzied action takes place. Or sink it and use it as a nymph or dro...

A super simplistic but effective dry fly pattern. Particularly useful during mayfly hatches when finicky trout are present.

    Pale Morning Dun Cripple When trout key on struggling mayflies instead of perfect duns, a cripple pattern can outfish a traditional dry...

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