Dry Flies

A required complement to the legendary Adams. Imitates the plethora of dun brown and gray mayflies, add the yellow butt section to imitate a fema...

A beautifully tied fly, dominant wings. Excellent imitation of Isonychia bicolor. Mahogany's typically have two peak hatches spring and late sum...

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

Thorax style flies feature a single wing, and more hackling. Often fished with a 'V' cut in the bottom hackle to allow it ride lower. Proponents o...

After all these years it is still hard to beat the Wulff series of flies in many parts of the world. One of the best is right here, a great all pu...

Adams is the most popular dry fly of all time The cripple is designed to replicate an half emergered insect. Great for callibaetis and other grey ...

Midges are an important food source for trout, particularly in the winter. While many insects don't start hatching until the spring, most waters ...

Thorax style flies feature a single wing, and more hackling. Often fished with a 'V' cut in the bottom hackle to allow it ride ...

A widespread hatch occurring in the warmer months, in many places it is the most important mayfly hatch of the season. Many times finicky and s...

These little flies cause some of the most extreme action of the summer in many locations. This pattern another delicate offering to have in your a...

Overview: Excellent pattern for many light colored mayflies including, Pale Morning Dun, Red Quills, Pale Evening Duns, Pale Watery Duns, and Spu...

This might win the award for simplifying dry fly selection. It is a jack of all insects and master of none. Winner of 'one fly' contests. Perhaps ...

Fish love ants, the bigger and nastier the more intense the strikes become. From Scott Sanchez's book "A New Generation of Trout Flies,” this pa...

Spinners are the adult stage of mayfly life that involves reproduction. Our spinner selection focuses on the spent-wing spinners, when mayflies ar...

We have all seen a Parachute Adams, and most of us have caught more fish than we can count on one. The pattern has been around for generations. Ho...

The faithful midge insect, its imitations are the go to for a lot fly fisherman, especially in the dead of winter. This pattern is designed to be...

A widespread hatch occurring in the warmer months, in many places it is the most important mayfly hatch of the season. A very precise imitation...

The marvelous baetis like the energizer bunny, just keeps on ticking. A very exact imitation of baetis during many hatches. These insects can va...

The Sunken Trico is tied with small ultra wire wrapped body, the purpose of this is to slightly sink the pattern in the subsurface, much like a sp...

Elk Hair Caddis flies can be extremely hard to see, especially at dusk or dawn. This pattern is not quite the same as a traditional Elk Hair Caddi...

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 high visible black fly Great for midges, ants, gnats, and little black terrestrials. Very common and prolific insect, that should not be overloo...

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...

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

Ants are more important food source than most fly anglers realize. Ants are extremely available to fish on ice free waters in the Rockies, Cascade...

When fish key on dark spinners this pattern does the trick. Spinner falls are often what fish key in on. Universal Adams color, spinner pattern.

Midges are perhaps one of the most intimidating flies to fish with. They are small, hard to tie on a leader, and can be difficult to set the hook....

Ephemerella invaria, throughout the Midwest and many other regions as well, this is THE hatch to fish. We have to admit this pattern is eye catc...

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

When mayflies are hatching, fish will readily target emergers as the hatch begins. Fish commonly wait as nymphs wonder from the depths to the surf...

Similar to an Elk Hair Caddis, kind of like a Comparadun, and a little like a parachute pattern. A combination of some of the most effective dry ...

The Adams is one of the most successful dry fly patterns of all time. Can be used to imitate a plethora of mayfly hatches, including baetis, calli...

When I think of a cripple I typically think of a some type of mayfly, a BWO or Baetis, PMD or Sulphur, heck even a drake. But the truth is just a...

As the weather cools midges become an ever more important food source for trout. The CDC Surface Midge is designed to float well as it is made en...

Great for PMD and Hendricksons. Trout will eagerly take this pattern, even submerged. Fat, wily trout lay for the easy pickings that spinners pro...

Developed by Al Troth, on Hebgen Lake in Southwest Montana.  Originally tied to match the callibaetis hatch. The olive version effective for m...

Spinners are the adult stage of mayfly life that involves reproduction. Our spinner selection focuses on the spent-wing spinners, when mayflies ar...

This hatch is infamous on the Boise River. Also popular on other western rivers. Fish near riffles in the seams. This pattern also works for PMD's...

The Pale Morning Dun (PMD) hatch goes on and on and on, be ready as the fish become wary of the fishing pressure and often only select the cripple...

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...

A very prevalent and prolific summer hatch.  Little Black Caddis can dominate the afternoon summer dry fly action on many rivers. 

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...

This is one of those flies that can do a little bit of everything. Apply  a CDC floatant and fish it as a dry. Throw on a versileader and fish i...