River Pattern Guide

Best Flies for Batten Kill

The Batten Kill is the most celebrated wild brown trout river in New England and one of the most demanding in the eastern United States. Rising in the Green Mountains near Manchester, Vermont, the riv...

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12 recommended patterns

Streamer

Woolly Bugger

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

Sizes 2–10

Streamer

Sculpzilla

The sculpin slayer that big browns can't resist.

Sizes 4–10

Nymph

Prince Nymph

Doug Prince's attractor nymph combines peacock herl, brown hackle, goose biot wings and tail in a pa

Sizes 10–18

Nymph

Mop Fly

The Mop Fly — made from a strip of chenille mop material on a jig hook — is the most controversial a

Sizes 10–14

Nymph

Green Rock Worm

The Green Rock Worm imitates free-living Rhyacophila caddis larvae — the bright green caterpillar-li

Sizes 12–16

Streamer

Slumpbuster

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

Sizes 4–8

Streamer

Sex Dungeon

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

Sizes 2–6

Streamer

Circus Peanut

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

Sizes 2–6

Streamer

Kreelex

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

Sizes 6–10

Wet Fly

Woolly Worm

The ancestor of the Woolly Bugger, the Woolly Worm is a palmered chenille-and-hackle pattern that ha

Sizes 8–14

Terrestrial

Inchworm

A simple bright-green chenille or foam pattern that imitates the caterpillars and inchworms that dro

Sizes 10–14

Streamer

Barely Legal

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

Sizes #2–#6