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True-Fly Patterns

  • BXB Parachute Slate Drake Dun

    BXB Parachute Slate Drake Dun

    The Slate Drake (or genus Isonychia) is a prominent, big bodied mayfly that hatches in trout streams across the East and Midwest.  While not found in the numbers of some of the spring-emerging mayflies such as the Sulphurs, the trout will...

    $1.60
  • BXB Parachute Yellow Drake

    BXB Parachute Yellow Drake

    The Yellow Drake (Ephemera varia) is a massive mayfly that emgerges from Midwestern and Eastern streams each fall.  Unlike other mayflies in the Ephemera family, which hatch from the water in a flurry over a week, the Yellow Drake will emerge...

    $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
  • Cicada - Black/Orange Cicada - Olive/Tan

    Cicada

    Among the largest of terrestrial trout foods, the Cicadas will emerge from the soil each summer to chirp through the summer nights.  While present in modest numbers most years, the Cicadas will burst from the soil in almost plague-like proportions...

    $1.75
  • 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...

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  • Cranefly

    Cranefly

    Among the largest of midges on our water, the Crane Fly looks like a Boeing 777 when compared with its peers.  Known by a number of names from "Mosquito Hawk" to "Skeeter Dragon", the general image being communicated is that this is one BIG midge!...

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  • 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...

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  • Dark Hendrickson

    Dark Hendrickson

    Tied to match the East coast's first and most prolific Spring mayfly hatch, that of Ephemerella subvaria or Dark Hendrickson.  The traditional Dark Hendrickson dry fly pattern has been a staple in the fly angler's box and is a go-to match for...

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  • 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...

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  • Eastern Green Drake Spinner

    Eastern Green Drake Spinner

    The spawned out mayfly spinner, floating on top of the water after death, is among the easiest food and fastest calories for the feeding trout.  Immediately after spawning, the male mayflies will fall to the water, spreading their wings wide in...

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  • Extended Body Foam Grey Drake

    Extended Body Foam Grey Drake

    The mayfly genus of Siphlonurus, commonly known as Grey Drakes, are an important still water and slow moving water family spanning the US and Canada.  Swimming quickly to the surface in a hatch that lasts a number of months, it is the...

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  • Extended Body Hex Spinner

    Extended Body Hex Spinner

    The queen of North American mayflies, the Hexegenia or Hex mayfly is only outclassed in size by one other species.  Found across the United States burrowed into the silty bottoms of lakes and large rivers, the Hex mayfly nymphs will emerge...

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  • Feather Bender

    Feather Bender

    Among the largest mayfly species found in our rivers spanning from the Midwest to the Pacific Ocean, the Green Drake Nymph is a staple food for many trout.  While the nymphs attempt to stay anchored to the rocks on the bottom of the river, they...

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  • Flint's Yellow Sally Flint's Yellow Sally

    Flint's Yellow Sally

    This realistic Yellow Sally Stonefly pattern goes the extra mile in its attention to size, wing shape, and color differences of both the male and female adult.  When the standard generalist patterns aren't cutting it on the water, it's time to tie...

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  • Red Floss Worm Pink Floss Worm Tan Floss Worm

    Floss Worm

    The thinner and more active little brother of the squirmy worm fly, the Floss Worm has all the aspirations of becoming a big worm someday but because trout love eating them so much, few will ever have the chance! Ties with a durable plastic floss and a...

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  • Black Flying Ant Rust Flying Ant Black & Rust Flying Ant

    Flying Ant

    While small in stature, what ants and termites lack in size, they make up for in numbers.  Each summer, across the United States, when the stars align and the temperature is right, ants will swarm and take flight.  Both flying ants and their...

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  • Foam Body Parachute Hex

    Foam Body Parachute Hex

    This large, extended body foam Hex mayfly matches the profile and grandeur of the queen of mayflies, Hexeginia limbata. Found across the United States, burrowed into the silty bottoms of lakes and large rivers, the Hex mayfly nymphs will emerge to...

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  • Foam Hopper

    Foam Hopper

    A more buoyant and durable version of the parachute hopper, the Foam Hopper will take a beating and keep on fishing!  There are few trout foods as eagerly anticipated each summer and fall as clumsy grasshoppers falling off the banks and into the...

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  • Tungsten Jigged Glass Body CDL Drake

    Glass Body CDL Drake

    Imitating one of the largest species of mayflies found in the rivers from the Rocky Mountains to the West Coast, the Glass Body CDL Drake is a ultra realistic imitation of the Western Green Drake Nymph!  Big and clumsy, and often washed out of its...

    $2.75
  • 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...

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  • Goldbead Poxyback PMD

    Goldbead Poxyback PMD

    The nymph life cycle of the Pale Morning Dun is actively preyed upon by trout in both Eastern and Western rivers.  Known to take multiple "practice runs" between the bottom of the river and the surface before committing to emergence, trout will feed...

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  • Green Drake Emerger

    Green Drake Emerger

    When the big green drake nymphs break cover from the bottom of the stream and start to make their way towards the surface, it is mayhem!  Trout lose their minds as they aggressively pursue and feed upon the ascending Green Drake nymphs, making the...

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  • Green Drake Parachute Emerger

    Green Drake Parachute Emerger

    The Jumbo Jet of Western mayflies, the Green Drake takes a long time to spread its wings and get off the water.  During the Green Drake hatch, trout will key in and actively feed on the emergers as they struggle to free their wings from their...

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  • Green Drake Sparkle Dun

    Green Drake Sparkle Dun

    Among the largest moving water mayfly species in the western US, the Green Drake dwarfs other mayfly species when it emerges each summer.  Due to the size of its wings and the time needed to stretch and dry them during their emergence, the Green...

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