Hatch Imitations

Flies That Imitate Mayfly Nymph

15 proven patterns designed to match mayfly nymph across multiple life stages. From subsurface nymphs to surface duns, these are the flies that consistently fool selective trout.

Soft Hackle Carrot

A hare's-ear-bodied nymph with a fluorescent-orange Glo Brite rib, CDC hackle, and a shrimp-pink ice

Sizes #12–#18

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Super Simple Pheasant Tail fly pattern
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Super Simple Pheasant Tail

Devin Olsen's stripped-down pheasant tail jig — hook, bead, thread, tail, body. No rib, no thorax, n

Sizes #16–#18

Egan's Tungsten Surveyor

A dense, fast-sinking hybrid: the classic Hare's Ear silhouette built with the Rainbow Warrior's tra

Sizes #14–#18

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Mike Komara's Walt's Worm fly pattern
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Mike Komara's Walt's Worm

Mike Komara's take on the classic Walt's Worm — squirrel dubbing body, pearlescent tinsel rib, slott

Sizes #14–#20

ZebraGon

A smooth-bodied mayfly/zebra-midge/perdigon hybrid with silver wire rib, black nail-polish wingcase,

Sizes #14–#18

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Egan's Thread Frenchie

A thread-bodied, UV-resin-coated jig nymph that captures the Frenchie silhouette without fragile phe

Sizes #14–#18

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Silver Bullet Baetis

A slim, drab-toned, resin-coated mayfly nymph designed for picky tailwater fish. No hot spot, no fla

Sizes #14–#18

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Mayday Mayfly

A brown holographic-tinsel-bodied mayfly nymph with a hot orange wire rib and Simi Seal thorax. Insp

Sizes #14–#18

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Egan's Rainbow Warrior Perdigon

A dense, UV-coated perdigon that translates the Rainbow Warrior's color palette — pearl body, red co

Sizes #16–#20

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Egan's Iron Lotus

A sleek, fast-sinking mayfly nymph with a white-ribbed olive thread body, peacock thorax, black flas

Sizes #14–#18

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Quilldigon fly pattern
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Quilldigon

A dense perdigon nymph with a Polish Quill segmented body, pearl Sulky tag, and black-nail-polish wi

Sizes #14–#20

Roza's Pink Pheasant Tail fly pattern
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Roza's Pink Pheasant Tail

Luboš Roza's pink-headed take on the pheasant tail — a euro nymphing point fly with a metallic pink

Sizes #12–#18

Egan's Red Dart

An attractor nymph that merges the Red Tag's tail with the Prince Nymph's soft-hackle collar, finish

Sizes #12–#16

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Lite Brite Perdigon fly pattern
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Lite Brite Perdigon

A smooth-bodied perdigon nymph built with Krystal Flash for a flashy attractor counterpart to the Qu

Sizes #14–#20

Tungsten Soft Hackle Hare's Ear fly pattern
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Tungsten Soft Hackle Hare's Ear

Old Dominion Trout Bum's tungsten-bead jig take on the soft hackle hare's ear — a euro-style emerger

Sizes #14–#18