Best Winter Trout Flies

Barbless version of a classic! Any alpine lakes fly fisher knows the prevalence of the Mosquito. This pattern is not only deadly when Mosquitoes ...

Much like the Parachute Adams, the Parachute Blue Wing Olive has been around a long time. The Blue Wing Olive in particular is responsible for th...

A great pheasant tail pattern that is especially popular in the PA area. Much like a traditional pheasant tail, but with subtle difference that ca...

Excellent pattern for Great Lakes Steelie, trout and Alaska.  Especially effective in low water. Has become a go to fly in very little time.

Long a standby in every fly fisher's fly box. Especially effective in lakes, along the reeds, and in slower pools of rivers. Very common and pro...

An import from New Zealand. A robust pheasant tail, with a full bodied silhouette. A great addition to your beadhead arsenal.

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...

Everyone, in mean everyone, has a pheasant tail nymph in a fly box. The Cove's Pheasant Tail is yet another pattern spawned from the ingenious p...

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...

Swinging soft hackles for trout has gained some popularity of late. This pattern is particular designed with that in mind. While it can be fishe...

If you're not fishing a Squirminator, you should be The barbless tactical jig hook makes this thing even more deadly Squirmy material is irresisti...

A new pattern that provides a great alternative to heavily pressured fish. Imitates midges and small mayflies. A top producer when fish ignore s...

Long a standby in every fly fisher's fly box. Especially effective in lakes, along the reeds, and in slower pools of rivers. Very common and pro...

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...

Also known as the Shammy worm, it is made out of dyed and dried chamois hide. The material gives this fly an incredibly life like quality when we...

A very good imitation of a midge pupae and often fished under an indicator in lakes. The white bead represent their gills - who doesn't love Ice ...

The least romanticized insect for fly fisherman is easily the worm. Not to many people like fishing them, but the reality is they can be incredibl...

The theory in fly fishing has been when it is dark, fish light, and when it is light, fish dark. This rings true both in lighting conditions and w...

A chironomid pupa pattern, the Double Ice Cream Cone is meant to replicate emergering chironomids. Extremely popular in the high lakes of Oregon a...

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...

Chironomids are the most prevalent food sources in lakes Trout eat a huge amount of these.  This is a simple, effective chironomid pattern. Fish ...

Like all the Pheasant Tail patterns, this one has a spot in every trout fisher's fly box. Hot spots make more sense that one might think at first...

Another bloodworm/chironomid larva imitation, much like the Bionic Worm. In fact, these two pattern often go hand in hand. When the Bionic Worm ...

If you're not fishing a Squirminator, you should be Squirmy material is irresistible Double down with a duo-tone Squirminator. Double the color, ...

RIO's best fish-catching midge pupae/larvae patterns ever designed, and something that should be in everyone's box.

This pattern is a very popular midge imitation throughout the trout fly fishing world, bead color matches body. American Angler estimates midges a...

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...

Barbless version of a classic! Long a standby in every fly fisher's fly box. Especially effective in lakes, along the reeds, and in slower...

A barbless version of a classic, in our best-selling color! The Pale Morning Dun or PMD is a great hatch throughout the West. Massive numbers tri...

Extremely effective mayfly pattern especially in the Sierra’s. Originally designed by Andy Burk. Terribly hard to take a picture of... Yellowish...

Proudly designed by a Big Y Customer and Hood River local. "This fly features a simple body design that helps it sink quickly and a natural CDC col...

It has been reported that this single species makes up 22% of trout's diet. Has all the characteristics of an Attractor pattern. Yet is also a gre...

This top producing wet fly, works year around, anyplace, anytime. Mosquito's are extremely available to fish, and constantly targeted. Wet flies ...

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...

If you're not fishing a Squirminator, you should be The barbless tactical jig hook makes this thing even more deadly Squirmy material is irresisti...

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,...

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...

"The Silver Bullet Baetis is a sleek, fast sinking pattern perfect for hanging below a bushy dry, or on a nymph rig. This simple fly is durable, ...

Fish love eggs. They will eat them indiscriminately. Not just steelhead and salmon either, every fish will eat any eggs. Very popular for Erie Ste...