Dry Flies

Foam is a wonderful material to design flies with, it is durable, floats extremely well, and is available in a variety of colors. The Better Foam C...

The 409 will clean up any messy pool, riffle or tailout. Clean as could be. It looks like a little bit of everything. A hopper, a golden stone, a j...

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...

Designed by Lance Egan who says:  "I believe I know you're thinking "this is just a sailor ant". Please know that I realize I'm not the originator ...

The Big Fat version of the Angie came about because I find Chubbies to just be plain boring. Plus sizing Angie and adding a double wing makes this ...

The Missing Link is that fly that works even when when the hatch might be not quite as expected. The Missing Link is that fly that links the hatche...

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,...

Featured an epoxy coated body for a realistic sheen and rides a tad lower in the river, cause ants don't swim that well.

This is one sweet October Caddis pattern. It has the colors and profile just right to bring those fish off the bottom to eat. October Caddis are no...

"When developing this pattern my goal was to make a super light fly that sat more "on” the water as opposed to "in” the water like stimulator type ...

This sneaky little dry/emerger pattern can trick even the pickiest trout. The simple pattern has the right amount of wing material to really pique ...

"Stylistically this fly has a number of traits that I tend to incorporate in my foam dry flies while maintaining that simple, low riding, hopper/st...

"I’ve been using this pattern for 10 years or more. On the Deschutes we have a hatch of green drakes that hatch on the fastest rapids you can fin...

A great pattern when fishing heavily forested areas. Particularly popular on high alpine lakes. Carpenter Ants can provide a vital food source and ...

"Stylistically this fly has a number of traits that I tend to incorporate in my foam dry flies while maintaining that simple, low riding, hopper/st...

Designed by Charlie Craven My Boy Wonder Hopper has been in various stages of development for about ten years now. The Charlie Boy has always been ...

My search for a viable Green Drake pattern took years to develop. Catching the hatch each year to test my latest creations became an obsession. My...

The DJL Drake was conceived of when guiding the drake hatch on the lower Henry's Fork in June 2017. Nothing in my box matched the silhouette as clo...

A simple damselfly pattern that gets the job done. When those fish want a damsel, they want it real bad, and there is not much that they will take ...

Designed with selective fish in mind, the 401K Baetis pays dividends for anglers. A high vis wing along with CDC and hackle keep the fly riding low...

"Giddy-up! The Hipster Dufus was designed to be a versatile bug that you can dap, flip, drag it, drop it, or bomb it on fish. With barred wood duck...

"While Sallies do skate and flit, they sit low on the water and patterns tied with lots of hackle only seemed to work on the smaller fish in faster...