Emergers & Cripples

This pattern has been used to imitate all kinds of trout delicacies, including but not limited to, mayflies, caddis, scuds, sows, midges, worms, a...

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 ...

Guess what, fish have become more sophisticated. There are times when they are so selective they only will hit the cripples. Be prepared with th...

Excellent pattern when fish are on the surface but not hitting the duns. Trailing shuck and beadhead make this a great pattern to cast upstream, a...

Excellent pattern when fish are on the surface but not hitting the duns. Trailing shuck make this a great pattern to cast upstream, and allow to ...

Excellent pattern when fish are on the surface but not hitting the duns. Trailing shuck and beadhead make this a great pattern to cast upstream, a...

Excellent pattern when fish are on the surface but not hitting the duns. Trailing shuck makes this a great pattern to cast upstream, and allow to...

Excellent pattern when fish are on the surface but not hitting the duns. Trailing shuck and beadhead make this a great pattern to cast upstream, ...

One can never have to many midge patterns, and this a great nymph to add to the box. Bead Wing gives this emerger a look that only a transparent ...

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...

A great pattern for imitating the emerging mayfly. Beaded head which adds a slight amount of weight. The bubble back traps air which attract fish....

Emerging caddis are a slow moving haphazard insect phase that are a treat for trout. One of our favorite all time emerger patterns. This patter...

Emerging caddis are a slow moving haphazard insect phase that are a treat for trout. Now with a beadhead. Please note that this pattern is tan/r...

Fish love caddis, and one can never have to many imitations. Solitude has made some of the most realistic caddis pupa's available. Tied on 2x lo...

Emerging caddis are a slow moving haphazard insect phase that are a treat for trout. This pattern includes cdc, peacock, shucks, color contrasts....

When you see fish slurping, they are feasting on emergers. These little patterns with life like CDC wings, make irresistible imitators to these a...

For those tiny caddis hatches. The smaller the caddis the harder, the match, this pattern works great for both emergers and spinners.            ...

Midges are available all year round and in almost every river, an avid fisherman knows you need midges. This pattern is designed to replicate Midg...

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

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...

A simple emerger pattern that is quite effective. This emerger should sit just below the surface, with a small piece of foam just barely keeping ...

An emerger pattern with some sparkle and weight. Can be fished at varying depths of the water column. Many strikes come at the end of the drift,...

Blue wing olives are one of the most iconic hatches. Fly fisherman relish them as do the fish. Being so popular this one hatch has created a pleth...

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...

This classic pattern was designed by innovative tier Gary LaFontaine. The Emergent is the first pattern to mimic the hesitation of the escaping na...

This pattern is deadly when fish are keying on emergers. The emerging stage is when insects are the most vulnerable, and big fat fish slurp them up.

This pattern is deadly when fish are keying on emergers. The emerging stage is when insects are the most vulnerable, and big fat fish slurp them ...

This pattern is deadly when fish are keying on emergers. The emerging stage is when insects are the most vulnerable, and big fat fish slurp them u...

Tied with CDC this pattern originated as a Sedge (caddis) emerger from Europe. Great for small dark caddis or sedge. Floats without the aid of ...

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...

A great improvement on this all-time classic pattern. Many nymphs take on a very shiny appearance right before emerging. Trout key in on this vuln...

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...

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...

An excellent callibaetis lake pattern, just like the title, all this fly needs is the water. Beadhead gives it weight, tied in pheasant tail (a p...

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 ...

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...

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.

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...

A great little emerger/midge pattern that is sure to work wonders in rivers, lakes, and ponds. A black tungsten bead is used for some weight and t...