River Pattern Guide

Best Flies for Grande Ronde River

The Grande Ronde River carves one of the most remote and dramatic steelhead corridors in the Pacific Northwest, slicing through a deep basalt canyon along the Oregon-Washington border before pouring i...

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12 recommended patterns

Streamer

Sculpzilla

The sculpin slayer that big browns can't resist.

Sizes 4–10

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

Zonker

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

Sizes 4–10

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

Olive Woolly Bugger

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

Sizes 6–12

Streamer

Clouser Minnow (Trout)

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

Sizes 6–10

Streamer

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

Wet Fly

Carey Special

The Carey Special is a Pacific Northwest stillwater staple featuring a pheasant rump hackle that cre

Sizes 8–12

Streamer

Barely Legal

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

Sizes #2–#6

Streamer

Meat Whistle

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

Sizes #2–#6

Streamer

Home Invader

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

Sizes #1/0–#4