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General and Year-Round Standby Patterns

       

        The following flies are patterns that will give you a very good chance of catching at least some fish, wherever you go in the area discussed in this guide.  Sometimes you will need other patterns, but the following flies give you an excellent start. 

 

 

Attractor and Terrestrial Dry Flies

Turck's Tarantula, #8-12 Lamar River Hopper, various colors, #8 Foam Beetle, black, #18
Coachman Trude, #10-16 Letort Hopper, green and natural, #8-14 Yellow Stimulator, #12-16
Royal Wulff, #10-16 Parachute Adams, #12-18 Fur Ant, cinnamon and black, #16-20

 

Hatch-Matching Dry Flies to Always Have (Other Patterns Apply Seasonally)

Elk Hair Caddis, #12-18 2 PMD patterns (your favorites), #16-20 Blue Dun or Soda Fountain Parachute, 10-14
Rusty Spinner, #12-18 2 BWO patterns (your favorites), #18-22 Griffith's Gnat, #14, 18-22

 

Nymphs, Wets, and Emergers

Beadhead Pheasant-Tail, 14-20 Copper John, #12-18 Matt's Golden Stone, #8-12
Flashback PT, #16-22 Lightning Bug, #14-18 Matt's Black Stone, #4-8
BWO Emerger, #18-22 Four Feather, #12-18 Skinny Bugger, #8 (damselfly nymph)
BH Prince, #10-16 (our top-selling nymph) Bead, Hare, and Copper, #10-14 Gray Caddis Nymph, #14
Light Colored Wet, #12-16 PMD Emerger, #16-20 Sparkle Caddis Emerger, #12-16

 

Streamers

Woolly Bugger, black, #4-8 Muddler or Other Sculpin, #4-8 Joffe Jewel, #8-10
Bully Bugger, #8 P-Bugger, #4 White Zonker, #4-8

 

 

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