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Executive Angler

Fly library

162 trout fly patterns

Patterns on the bench. Twelve on the plate, the rest in columns. Filters stay behind the toggle. Signed in, you can also filter by what you can tie from your materials.

Executive Angler lists 162 trout fly patterns with recipes, materials, and river matches. Use this library to build a box, then open a river fly list when you need what is on the hatch chart for that water. Start with Madison flies if you are packing for Montana meadow water, or browse by dry, nymph, and streamer.

How to use this fly library for a river trip

For a river week, pick patterns from this library, then confirm sizes on that river's hatch-chart fly list. Madison is the default Montana freestone start: rubber-leg stones, PMDs, caddis, and BWOs cover most of the season above and below Ennis. Open Best Flies for Madison River for the chart-matched list, the Madison River page for access and gauges, and Montana for neighboring waters. We do not publish other anglers' catches or GPS.