Fly Library

Streamers

Streamers imitate baitfish, sculpins, leeches, and crayfish — the big-protein meals that draw aggressive strikes from the largest trout in the river. Fish them on sink-tip lines with an active retrieve.

17 patterns in this category

leechesbaitfish

Woolly Bugger

If you could only fish one fly for the rest of your life.

Sizes 2–10

sculpindarters

Sculpzilla

The sculpin slayer that big browns can't resist.

Sizes 4–10

sculpinbaitfish

Slumpbuster

John Barr's Slumpbuster is a cone-headed pine squirrel strip streamer designed to imitate sculpin an

Sizes 4–8

large baitfishsculpin

Sex Dungeon

Kelly Galloup's Sex Dungeon is a massive, articulated streamer designed to trigger predatory aggress

Sizes 2–6

minnowsbaitfish

Zonker

The Zonker uses a rabbit strip tied over a Mylar tube body to create a baitfish imitation with incre

Sizes 4–10

sculpingrasshoppers

Muddler Minnow

Don Gapen's Muddler Minnow is one of fly fishing's most versatile patterns. Its spun deer hair head

Sizes 4–10

large baitfishsculpin

Circus Peanut

Russ Maddin's Circus Peanut is a dual-articulated streamer with a peanut-shaped foam head that gives

Sizes 2–6

leechesdamselfly nymphs

Olive Woolly Bugger

The olive variant of the Woolly Bugger is specifically effective as a leech and damselfly nymph imit

Sizes 6–12

minnowsjuvenile fish

Clouser Minnow (Trout)

Bob Clouser's iconic dumbbell-eyed minnow pattern, scaled down for trout water. The weighted eyes ma

Sizes 6–10

baitfishshiners

Kreelex

The Kreelex is a simple but flashy baitfish pattern made primarily of metallic lateral scale materia

Sizes 6–10

large baitfishsculpin

Double Bunny

The Double Bunny uses two rabbit strips — one on top, one on the bottom of the hook — to create a wi

Sizes 2–8

leechesbaitfish

Autumn Splendor

Mike Schmidt's Autumn Splendor is a balanced leech/baitfish pattern designed to be fished on a jig h

Sizes 8–12

sculpinsbaitfish

Barely Legal

Kelly Galloup designed this articulated streamer to push water and create maximum vibration on the s

Sizes #2–#6

sculpinsdarters

Meat Whistle

A compact, heavily-weighted sculpin imitation that rides hook-point-up to bounce along rocky bottoms

Sizes #2–#6

large baitfishjuvenile trout

Home Invader

A long, articulated streamer built on a Fish Skull head that creates an exaggerated swimming action

Sizes #1/0–#4

Backflop Jig

A slim mink-zonker jig streamer for Euro-nymph streamer tactics.

Sizes 8–12

sculpinminnow

Egan's Poacher — Olive

A dense Euro-rig streamer with squirrel zonker and Mega Simi Seal.

Sizes 8–10

sculpinminnow