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True-Fly Patterns

  • Goldbead Poxyback Green Drake Goldbead Poxyback Green Drake

    Goldbead Poxyback Green Drake

    One of the largest species of mayflies found in the rivers and streams of the West, a drifting Goldbead Poxyback Green Drake represents one of the trout's favorite foods!  Big and clumsy, and often washed away from its rocky refuge by high Spring...

    $1.75
  • Orange Beadhead Loop Egg Pink Beadhead Loop Egg Red Beadhead Loop Egg

    Beadhead Loop Egg

    Eggs are a trout favorite, as they are one of the first major meals available to trout after ice off as well as one of the last chances to pack on weight before the lean winter months.  During the spawn, all trout will actively feed on eggs...

    $1.75
  • Red Beadhead San Juan Worm Pink Beadhead San Juan Worm Tan Beadhead San Juan Worm Purple Beadhead San Juan Worm

    Beadhead San Juan Worm

    As many of us learned as young children with a spinning reel or cane pole in hand, worms catch a lot of fish.  There are a number of worm species (both aquatic and terrestrial) that fish will actively pursue when given the chance.  Worm...

    $1.75
  • Mosquito Emerger

    Mosquito Emerger

    While we as anglers may despite them, the 595 species of Mosquito inhabiting the waters of the US and Canada remain one of the trout's favorite foods.  Unlike our black flies which cling to the surface of rocks, and chironomids that burrow into the...

    $1.50
  • Colorado Caddis

    Colorado Caddis

    Tied with a fuller wing than the typical wet caddis pattern, the Colorado Caddis is intended to span both the emerging caddis life cycle as well as the egg-laying adult life cycle for caddis species that dive or crawl beneath the water to lay their eggs...

    $1.50
  • BTS Mysis

    BTS Mysis

    A resident of a number of lakes and reservoirs across the Rockies and Western US, Mysis Shrimp are a key forage species supporting some of the most productive lake and tailwater trout fisheries.  These opaque, semi-translucent, protein-rich shrimp...

    $1.50
  • Orange Loop Egg Red Loop Egg Pink Loop Egg

    Loop Egg

    Eggs are a trout favorite, as they are one of the first major meals available to trout after ice off as well as one of the last chances to pack on weight before the lean winter months.  During the spawn, all trout will  actively feed on eggs...

    $1.50
  • Olive BTS Scud Tan BTS Scud Pink BTS Scud Orange BTS Scud

    BTS Scud

    Though often confused with fresh water shrimp, scud are among a family of "side swimmers" and are a key staple in the diet of trophy trout in both lakes and rivers. Varying in color from olive to pink, these protein-packed crustaceans try to stay close...

    $1.50
  • Red San Juan Worm Pink San Juan Worm Tan San Juan Worm Purple San Juan Worm

    San Juan Worm

    As many of us learned as young children with a spinning reel or cane pole in hand, worms catch a lot of fish.  There are a number of worm species (both aquatic and terrestrial) that fish will actively pursue when given the chance. Worm patterns are...

    $1.50
  • Dragonfly Nymph

    Dragonfly Larva

    Found in slow moving backwaters and lakes, the nymph life cycle of the dragon fly is going to offer the fly fisherman the best and most consistent action with the fly.  While not typically present in large numbers, jerkily retrieving a Dragonfly...

    $1.50
  • Damselfly Nymph

    Damselfly Nymph

    Sharing the same backwater and lake habitat with their larger cousins, the Dragonflies, the Damselfly Nymphs are often found in the water in large numbers.  Because the adults are so accomplished at flying and rarely fall in the water, the Damselfly...

    $1.50
  • Olive Bachmann's Damsel Nymph Tan Bachmann's Damsel Nymph

    Bachmann's Damsel Nymph

    Sharing the same backwater and lake habitat with their larger cousins the Dragonflies, the Damselfly Nymphs are often found in the water in large numbers.  Because the adults are so accomplished at flying and rarely fall in the water, the Damselfly...

    $1.50
  • Tan Chewee Cranefly Larva Olive Chewee Cranefly Larva

    Chewee Cranefly Larva

    Like hotdogs for trout, the cranefly larva can grow as large as your pinkie finger and represents a huge meal for a hungry trout.  Particularly productive in the early Spring through runoff, the lead-wrapped interior of the Chewee Cranefly Larva...

    $1.50
  • Grey Ray Charles Olive Ray Charles Tan Ray Charles Pink Ray Charles

    Ray Charles

    The Ray Charles pattern is the guide's number one choice when attempting to imitate sow bugs.  Cousins of scud and freshwater shrimp, these crustaceans are best described as underwater roly polys.  While these tasty trout treats are common in a...

    $1.50
  • PS Martian Mouse - In the Light PS Martian Mouse - In the Dark

    PS Martian Mouse

    The PS Martian Mouse is an other-worldly fly and the brainchild of Aquatic Biologist Peter Stitcher.  Tied with several thick tufts of Glow in the Dark Flash to imitate the frantic splashing of a rodent swimming across the...

    $4.25
  • Hendrickson Mayfly Selection

    Hendrickson Mayfly Selection

    Hendrickson is a common name that anglers have used to encompass both the species of Ephemerella invaria (also known as the Sulphur of Light Hendrickson) and Ephemerella needhami (Dark Hendrickson) because they are often found living in the same...

    $18.50 - $48.50
  • Sulphur Mayfly Selection

    Sulphur Mayfly Selection

    Found in rivers and streams throughout the entirety of the Eastern US and Canada as well as most of the Midwest, the Sulphur Mayfly (formally known as Ephemerella invaria or locally as Light Hendrickson) is one of the earliest and most anticipated mayfly...

    $18.50 - $48.50
  • Hex Mayfly Selection

    Hex Mayfly Selection

    Populating lakes and slack waters in every US State (except Alaska, Arizona, and New Mexico), and spreading throughout every Canadian province except the furthest reaches of Nunavut and the Yukon, the Hex Mayfly (or genus Hexagenia) is one of the largest...

    $18.00 - $33.00
  • Sculpin Selection

    Sculpin Selection

    Found in rivers, streams, at every elevation and across most of the US and Canada, sculpin are one of the favorite foods of big trout and bass! Varying in color from a mottled brown to olive, sculpin spend their lives darting between the rocks and algae...

    $16.00 - $30.00
  • Salmonfly Selection

    Salmonfly Selection

    The stonefly genus of Pteronarcys could have come straight out of a Japanese monster movie taking on Godzilla in a fight to the death!  Known regionally as the Salmonfly or Giant Black Stonefly, these massive nymphs of crawl out of the river each...

    $20.00 - $35.75
  • Yellow Sally Stonefly Selection

    Yellow Sally Stonefly Selection

    Yellow Sally Stoneflies, also known as the "Little Yellow Stoneflies", can be found in rivers and streams across the continent and offer some exciting late summer dry fly action.  This family of small to mid-sized stoneflies live up to their name...

    $18.75 - $48.75
  • Golden Stonefly Selection

    Golden Stonefly Selection

    Among the biggest and baddest bugs on the river, the Golden Stonefly hatch is one of the most eagerly anticipated hatches of the summer!  These large bodied stoneflies take up to two years to reach maturity as a nymph before they are ready to crawl...

    $18.75 - $48.75
  • Shad Fly Selection

    Shad Selection

    Big fish eat big flies, and shad are among the favorite foods of many warm water predators (bass, pike, crappie, walleye, etc.) as well as large trout.  A school of shad looks like a tasty plate of sushi to a trophy fish, and you don't want to be...

    $16.00 - $28.00
  • Western Green Drake Selection

    Western Green Drake Selection

    If the Blue Winged Olive is the tiny Cessna of the mayfly family, the Green Drake is the hulking Boeing 787!  The Green Drakes are one of the largest mayfly families and are also one of the most eagerly-anticipated and pursued by trout...

    $18.50 - $48.50