Trout Fly Library

Dry Fly

Parachute Adams

Sizes 12–20

The Parachute Adams is arguably the most effective all-around dry fly in existence. Its gray body and mixed grizzly-brow

Nymph

Pheasant Tail Nymph

Sizes 12–20

Frank Sawyer's Pheasant Tail Nymph is one of the most widely fished subsurface patterns in the world. The natural pheasa

Dry Fly

Elk Hair Caddis

Sizes 12–18

Al Troth's Elk Hair Caddis is the definitive adult caddis imitation. The palmered hackle body and tent-shaped elk hair w

Streamer

Woolly Bugger

Sizes 2–10

The Woolly Bugger is the most versatile fly in existence, imitating leeches, baitfish, crayfish, stonefly nymphs, and vi

Emerger

RS2

Sizes 18–24

The RS2 (Rim's Semblance 2) is a devastatingly simple emerger pattern that hangs in the surface film imitating a mayfly

Nymph

Copper John

Sizes 12–18

The Copper John is a heavy, flashy attractor nymph that sinks like a rock and catches fish like a dream. Its copper wire