Extravaganza-2025

I’ve been using this pattern for 10 years or more. On the Deschutes we have a hatch of green drakes that hatch on the fastest rapids you can find, ...

In the beginning, Andy gave us the HBI (Hunchback Infrequens) and then the Crystal Hunchback PMD. Both have been huge sellers for PMD nymphs all ov...

"I have a vivid memory of when I first witnessed, at age 14, a brown trout leap out of the water and snag an electric blue adult damsel out of the ...

What could be better? You have all the benefits of a PHEASANT TAIL with the addition of a hot spot. You can match the hatch with this fly and get t...

“The Strawberries & Cream is an excellent “Pink Cahill” (PMD) nymph imitation. Like it’s cousin the Peaches & Cream, it has been very produ...

The GTi Caddis is more imitative than most of my patterns. It represents a hydropsychidae larvae, commonly called "net builder" Caddis. Though a ...

During practice for the 2013 World Fly Fishing Championship in Norway, I found that the brown trout preferred flush riding dry flies in the low gra...

Bob Quigley, the king of the “film” designed the Film Critic to match mayflies at their most vulnerable stage of the hatch, while emerging from nym...

A proven fly designed for carp, but effective on other species as well!

A solid chironomid pattern that has proven itself on lakes everywhere. Don't forget about this pattern when fishing rivers either!

No matter the venue, the SOS is a pure workhorse. From the super technical waters of New Zealand to brook trout waters of New England, Higa's SOS i...

"The 3 Mile cripple was designed on lower Henry's fork and has been tested on about every major river in Idaho and Montana. You can't beat the mag...

The Goddard Caddis is already a confidence pattern for many anglers and fools trout on a regular basis. The origins of this fly date back to the 60...

A great pattern in a callibaetis hatch. Fish this behind another dry, or by itself!

"The Rocksteady Stone was born out of necessity and developed over years of trial and error on the technical waters of the Truckee and Little Truck...

"This fly identifies with the two brightest 'blood worm' stages of the chironomids life cycle in deep water above a muddy bottom. They can stay in ...

"An idea hit me one night at 2 am while lying in bed, what if I used a jig bomb and found a way to make it round? I immediately got up, went to my ...

"Just like the Cajun etouffee dish, this is a big, tasty meal. This is a pattern where I’ve really tried to blur the line between realism and fisha...

Probably one of the most fun sight fishing flies ever. Best suited as the anchor/point fly on a nymphing rig or, fished as a dropped on a buoyant f...