Mayfly Nymphs

Tied skinny on a curved nymph hook. Flash, excellent for skinny water, temperamentally challenged fish. Many nymphs develop a shiny back before ...

We dream of fishing those big, thick PMD hatches. This pattern will ensure that you catch those big trout even before they start eating dry flies. ...

An extremely buggy prince nymph pattern. This pattern is going to be a fish catching machine. Olive body with a bit a flash mixed in the dubbing...

Often over looked in the nymph form, light colored mayfly nymphs sometimes are the only nymph a finicky trout will hit. A nice silohuette for a n...

Wet flies are great emerging mayfly patterns, as well as a great searching pattern.  This classic color will work for all pale colored mayflies. W...

Tied specifically to closer imitate the E. Dorthea species. A very precise imitation for finicky fish. Sulphurs, PMDs, Light Cahills are major ha...

Part of being an exceptional fly creator means designing flies that are meant for you and your fly box only. That's precisely how RIO's signature t...

This pattern represents the March Brown nymph. In many places the emergence of this nymph represents the beginning of the spring fly fishing. This...

A beautiful all-purpose soft hackle beadhead. Imitates a March Brown along with many other mayflies.   Fish it in lakes, rivers and even works we...

Excellent for spring high water everywhere. In many places the emergence of this nymph represents the beginning of the spring fly fishing. This pa...

Your all-time favorite pattern with a bead that imitates the gas bubble nymphs ride to the top. This one will quickly be one of your must-haves. ...

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...

The addition of rubber legs to this all-time classic, make it an attractor pattern as well. Excellent for fast moving well oxygenated water. Now w...

Tied specifically to closer imitate the sulphur. The bright thorax imitates the sulphur, pmd and adds color contrast, that gets the attention of y...

Lets face it fish like shiny stuff, it is often what attracts them in the first place. Pheasant Tail UV contains UV dubbing in the thorax that he...

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...

Your all-time favorite pattern with a bead that imitates the gas bubble nymphs ride to the top. This one will quickly be one of your must have's....

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...

How do you improve on the Prince??  Add a more realistic profile. Contains attributes of many types of patterns including attractors and emergers ...

Wet fly hackles give this fly incredible underwater movement. Pair that with the krystal and the color purple and you get one of the hottest new p...

Absolute must in your fishing box, regardless of species. Imitates many under water food sources, has attraction, movement, a real classic. Create...

Designed by one of the renowned stillwater fly fishing angler Denny Rickard. Calibaetis are frequently a major hatch on lakes and rivers as well. ...

Sinks quickly and catches fish. Tested on the Yuba and Feather Rivers in California Color contrast and flash, this will scream 'pick me' wh...

A classic nymph, with a pheasant tail thorax and slender pheasant tail body. Useful for virtually all mayfly nymphs, including the Baetis nymph. ...

A chironomid pupa pattern, the Snow Cone is meant to replicate emergering chironomids. Extremely popular in the high lakes of Oregon and Colora...

Tied specifically to closer imitate the sulphur. Sulphurs, PMDs, Light Cahills are major hatches on many, many rivers.

Sulphurs and Pale Morning Duns are fairly similar in look and no surprise that the staple nymph for both hatches are the Pheasant Tail. The Sulph...

Designed by Randall Kaufmann to imitate the callibaetis nymph, also works for dragonfly and damselfly nymph. A very productive lake pattern and ...

Originating in Colorado this pattern imitates stonefly nymphs in larger sizes and mayfly nymphs in smaller sizes. Using peacock herl, this patt...