You fish long enough you begin to learn what catches fish, and what dosen’t. These are the few basic patterns we fish day after day, year after year. Some of these flies are our own patterns we had custom made from a very quality tier.
Cop Car Size:2 Item#: fl013 The famed cop car originally designed by Dennis Dickson for tidewater kings in Alaska and it turned into one of our top steelhead, dolly varden, and salmon flies. The guy looks like a bait fish with lots of wiggle.
Egg sucking Cop Car Size:2 Item#: fl027 Egg sucking, great used for fish that have been feeding on eggs. The famed cop car originally designed by Dennis Dickson for tidewater kings in Alaska and it turned into one of our top steelhead, dolly varden, and salmon flies. The guy looks like a bait fish with lots of wiggle.
Articulated Egg sucking Cop Car Size:2 Item#: fl015 Egg sucking with the hook set in the back. The famed cop car originally designed by Dennis Dickson for tidewater kings in Alaska and it turned into one of our top steelhead, dolly varden, and salmon flies. The guy looks like a bait fish with lots of wiggle.
Pink Humpy Cherise Size: 4 Item#: fl007 One of our original Humpy fly patterns. This is a marabou pattern we fish on dark days, clear water. Great for Pink salmon. Also good for both summer and winter steelhead near bottom.
Humpy Chaser Size: 4 Item#: fl068 Our best humpy fly ever. We have caught a ton of fish on this fly. Works good even on the beaches or estuaries. my box will be full of them.
Pink Stinker Size: 2 Item#: fl028 Good larger humpy pattern. Purple and pink. To show the fish “something different”. Particularly effective in clear water, bright afternoon situations.
Purple Tail Prawn Size: 2 Item#: fl068 A great summer steelhead pattern or for winter clear water conditions. This fly has a bead chain tied in the middle of the body to give it some sinking action. Another pretty fly.
Prawn Size: 2 Item#: fl067 A great summer steelhead pattern or for winter clear water conditions. This unweighted fly will help you stay out of the rocks in the soft water. What your friends will call a pretty fly.
Blue Over Purple Size: 2 Item#: fl001 For fishing steelhead in many different conditions. Maintains a good silhouette but also enough color for a bright day clear water condition. Mike's favorite steelhead colors.
Brass Eye Blue/Purple Size: 2 Item#: fl001 For fishing steelhead in many different conditions. Maintains a good silhouette but also enough color for a bright day clear water condition. The lead eye will help get it down. Mike's favorite steelhead pattern.
Big Bruise Size: 2 Item#: fl037 Fish BB when the water is just clearing after a rain. Steelhead and Dollies just slam it. A dark color makes the best silhouette in low light or low visibility.Bead chain eye fly.
Black Magnum Leach Size: 2 Item#: fl041 This is one of the bad boy series, when I want a large dark profile
for tidewater salmon or winter steelhead.A dark color makes the best silhouette in low light or low visibility.
Little Bruise Size: 2 Item#: fl006 A stealhead pattern that takes all species. The secret is its seductive undulation, as it swims through the pool. Dollies love it. A dark color makes the best silhouette in low light or low visibility.
Water Gremlin Size: 2 Item#: fl301 Great steelhead fly. Natural colors tied sparse. This flie can be nymphed or swung deep with a lead head. Brown, Green and black colors. Very "buggy fly" great for picky steelhead.
Hal Smith Size: 2 Item#: fl010 This is our dirty water, bright day fly, we fish all winter. The gold flashabou, really shows off this yellow/orange fly.
Salmon Stinger Size: 2 Item#: fl710 Lead eye fly great for salmon! Chum and silvers especially love this fly. It is tied on a especially strong Gamakatzu hook. great for a big wiggly pattern. Tied with bunny fur and marabou.
Skykomish Sunday Size: 2 Item#: fl012 This is our dirty water, bright day fly, we fish all winter. Non-waited and a great substitute for the Hall Smith fly when you want to keep it up off the rocks.
The Dawg Size: 2 Item#: fl062 UW colors. Beadchain eyes for a medium sink rate. For fishing steelhead in many different conditions. Maintains a good silhouette but also enough color for a bright day clear water condition. Good colors when you want contrast.
Jonathan's Coho Blue Size: 6 Item#: fl098 A lead head fly. It gives great action when stripped back through silvers. Tied in a low clear water style. Black with a blue body and crystal flash. Also great for summer stealhead.
Jonathan's Coho Green Size: 6 Item#: fl099 A lead head fly. It gives great action when stripped back through silvers. Tied in a low clear water style. Black with a green body and crystal flash. Also great for summer stealhead.
Olive Green/Black Cone head Bugger Size: 2 Item#: fl051 Cone Bugger (green/black) Started out as a winter steelhead pattern, the LH is a consistent producer for Chum salmon and even Dolly Varden. A dark color makes the best silhouette in low light or low visibility.
Purple Cone head Bugger Size: 2 Item#: fl029 I like this fly for those early summer steelhead on the Stilly and
Skykomish rivers. Swing it on a sinktip, or dead drift it off a floating line. Good anytime of day, fly.
Bead head Rolled Muddler Size: 6 Item#: fl0229 The Best Sea Run Cutt flie I have fished. Gets right under the surface when you strip it back. Tied with dear hair and made to look like a smolt.
Micro Egg sucker Green Size: 6 Item#: fl005 Everyone knows green is the chum salmon color, most people don’t know, so is purple. This fly has a purple body. Grease line on a sinktip.
Wool head Sculpin Size: 4 Item#: fl026 A primary food source for Sea run Cutthroat and Dolly Varden in freshwater and salt. You got to have this one. Beaches, estuaries, and streams. Try it, it's awesome!
Chum Sport Size: 6 Item#: fl050 You have heard of Chum Candy. Chum Sport is the best Chum Salmon fly I have fished especially close to the salt. Grease lined, swung on a sinktip, dead drifted for schooling fish. Tied on a salt water hook. Great confidence fly. Hoodsport baby.
Egg Sucking LeachGreen Size: 4 Item#: fl009 A steelhead pattern that takes all species. Great morning fly in the summer. We developed this fly for the Situk River in Alaska. Great searching pattern, as well as a follow back fly when you have moved a fish, but can’t get him to come back to the fly. A dark color makes the best silhouette in low light or low visibility.
Egg Sucking LeachGreen Lead Head Size: 2 Item#: fl010 Lead Head! A steelhead pattern that takes all species. Great morning fly in the summer. This fly will get down to the bottom!. A dark color makes the best silhouette in low light or low visibility. Good chum and steelhead flie.
Egg Sucking LeachPink Lead Head Size: 2 Item#: fl010 Lead Head! A steelhead pattern that takes all species. Great morning fly in the summer. This fly will get down to the bottom!. A dark color makes the best silhouette in low light or low visibility. Good chum and steelhead flie.
Black and Purple Wiggle Size: 4 Item#: fl1011 A steelhead pattern that takes all species. Great morning fly.. This cone head fly will get down to the bottom!. A dark color makes the best silhouette in low light or low visibility. Good steelhead flie. This fly sure has some great movement in the water.
Olive Matuka Size: 2 Item#: fl1019 A steelhead pattern that takes all species. This fly breathes great and moves better. Tied with some green flash in the body. This is not just a regular bugger. Very classy flie. Great for dolly's and steelhead.
Dolly Fry Size: 6 Item#: fl125 Most fish key in on bait fish when they are migrating. Char and sea run cutts are especially aggressive to this fly. Great movement in the water.
Flesh Fly Size: 2 Item#: fl1021 Great anytime you are fishing around spawning or dead fish. Great for rainbows in Alaska too. Dead drift to make it look like fish flesh. A Great dolly fly.
Micky Fin Size: 6 Item#: fl1129 A great flie for fish that are attacking bait fish. Good Sea run Cutt flie in tide water. This one gets there attention. Strip these guys at a good pace.
Articulated Egg sucking Cop Car Size:2 Item#: fl015 Egg sucking with the hook set in the back. The famed cop car originally designed by Dennis Dickson for tidewater kings in Alaska and it turned into one of our top steelhead, dolly varden, and salmon flies. The guy looks like a bait fish with lots of wiggle.
Articulated Brass Eye Blue/Purple Size: 2 Item#: fl001 Stinger hook for nippy fish. Octopus style hook. For fishing steelhead in many different conditions. Maintains a good silhouette but also enough color for a bright day clear water condition. The lead eye will help get it down. Mike's favorite steelhead pattern.
Articulated Black Magnum Leach Size: 2 Item#: fl041 Stinger hook. This is one of the bad boy series, when I want a large dark profile for tidewater salmon or winter steelhead. A dark color makes the best silhouette in low light or low visibility. Unweighted fly.
Purple Egg Articulated Sucking leach Size: 2 Item#: fl0441 This purple bunny leach is unweighted. Good salmon and winter steelhead fly. Purple is always a good color.
Brass Eye Articulated Leach Size: 2 Item#: fl048 With the hook set back on the tail of the fly this allows a sure hook when fish are nipping at your fly The hook on the tail really gives it great wiggle. Brass eyes help get this fly down to the fish too.
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Articulated Pink Leach Size: 2 Item#: fl017 A great winter time unweighted fly used on those low visibility glacial fed waters. Dicksons version of the pink worm. With the hook set back on the tail of the fly this allows a sure hook when fish are nipping at your fly The hook on the tail really gives it great wiggle.
Pink Articulated Prawn Size: 2 Item#: fl299 This un weighted prawn pattern moves well in the water. Tied with a dacron loop to allow for a stinger hook for nippy fish.
Purple Articulated Prawn Size: 2 Item#: fl399 This un weighted prawn pattern moves well in the water. Tied with a dacron loop to allow for a stinger hook for nippy fish.
Articulated Cone Head Pink Leach Size: 2 Item#: fl3017 A great winter time fly on those low visibility glacial fed waters. Dicksons version of the pink worm. With the hook set back on the tail of the fly this allows a sure hook when fish are nipping at your fly The hook on the tail really gives it great wiggle.
Articulated Cone Head Black Leach Size: 2 Item#: fl2017 A great winter time fly on those low visibility glacial fed waters. With the hook set back on the tail of the fly this allows a sure hook when fish are nipping at your fly The hook on the tail really gives it great wiggle.
Articulated Cone Head Purple Leach Size: 2 Item#: fl1117 A great winter time fly on those low visibility glacial fed waters. With the hook set back on the tail of the fly this allows a sure hook when fish are nipping at your fly The hook on the tail really gives it great wiggle.
Articulated Salmon Stinger Size: 2 Item#: fl710 Lead eye fly great for salmon! Chum and silvers especially love this fly. It is tied on a especially strong Gamakatzu hook. great for a big wiggly pattern. Tied with bunny fur and marabou.
Double Bead head Gold Stonefly Size: 8 Item#: fl099 A great natural clear water pattern for large trout and summer steelhead. Great dead drifted. Double Bead head to Get it down. Works great on the Methow.
Bead head Flash back Prince Nymph Size: 6 Item#: fl098 The hook is big enough to land steelhead and big fish. Good dead drifted. Great for trout and summer stealhead.
Floyd's Assassin Size: 4 Item#: fl998 The hook is big enough to land steelhead and big fish. Good dead drifted and swung on the end. Great for trout and summer stealhead especially on the grande Ronde.
Bead head Flash back Prince Nymph Size: 8 Item#: fl098 This fly can be used as a dropper from a larger pattern for trout and steelhead. Or it can be used on spooky steelhead in clear water. The hook is big enough to land steelhead and big fish. Good dead drifted.
Black Bead Head Black Nymph Size: 14 Item#: fl2001 Great trout river fly. Can be used as a trailer fly under a dry. Bead head helps it get down. Or for steelhead in late summer/clearwater.
Conrad's Full Lightning Bug Size: 12 Item#: fl022 Bead headed lakes fly. We fish it anytime hatches are bring the Rainbows to the surface. Picks up light great.
Twilight Size: 4 Item#: fl034 This black and purple spey fishes well under all lighting conditions. A great searching pattern, both surface and subsurface. Wonderful follow back pattern, when the Crystal Caddis has boiled a fish.
Pink Butt Skunk Size: 4 Item#: fl057 (Low water fly) A buddy showed me this fly. All he fishes for Snake River and Clearwater River Steelhead. GR fish like it too.
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Green Butt Skunk Size: 4 Item#: fl004 Probably the most popular summer steelhead pattern.
Low Water Skunk Size:6 Item#: fl038 When the South Fork of the Sky goes to gin clear each summer, this
little fellah, is the perfect profile, when the fish have gone to nipping. Excellent fly for SRC during Choronomid hatches.
Black and brown Prawn Size: 4 Item#: fl039 I love flies that swim well, and this prawn pattern has it all. Good profile, tracks well in the water, and nice color combination for steelhead. Good color tones to fish when you want to show the steelhead something natural.
Burlap Size: 8 Item#: fl044 Another do everything pattern, for low water steelhead. Great for summer steelhead when they are stacked up and have been fish on a lot.
Green Caddis Size: 8 Item#: fl003 When the summer steelhead have seen every marabou, every green butt skunk......here is a fly that will turn his head. Dead drift, swing and twitch. Awesome!
Olive Leach Size: 8 Item#: fl025 Great for lakes and rivers. Always a must have for the fly box. In rivers fish it on a swing. Maybe strip it. When fishing lakes, check out the vegetation if it is that olive color you probably have olive leaches.
Lights Out Size: 2 Item#: fl008 Great surface summer stealhead pattern. Use this under low light and in the shade. This fly is generally riffle-hitched and fished on the swing.
Royal Wulf Size: 8 Item#: fl025 Extended white wings and good stiff hackles make this our favorite Skating pattern for surface rising steelhead. Fish it in the those glassy tailouts where you know those steelhead are looking up.
Western Crane fly Size: 8 Item#: fl042
Best Sea run Cutthroat pattern I have seen, when SRC are locked into "daddy long legs" on those warm Aug/Sept. afternoons. Fish it when the convection is blowing the Cranefies off the farmer fields and onto your favorite Sea run Cutthroat pool. Dead drift, or retrieve with"Caddis Hop".
Glue Egg & Shuck Size: 8 Item#: fl052 Think Alaska. When the Dollies are bailing out of their tribs, they need protein and they need it now. As the Chum are spawning at this time, pulling in and eating eggs that are falling out of the nest, is just the ticket they are looking for. Dead drift behind chum redds.
Green Butt Pink Glue Egg Size: 6 Item#: fl152 We use this fly to get the attention of a fish in clear water. Chums love this dead drifted at them. Show them something different.
Green Egg Size: 6 Item#: fl1125 We use this fly to get the attention of a fish in clear water. Chums love this dead drifted at them. Makes a good change up.
Bait fish Size: 6 Item#: fl125 Tied with a saltwater hook. Most fish key in on bait fish when they are migrating. Char and sea run cutts are especially aggressive to this fly. Great movement in the water.
Clouser Minnow - Green/White Size: 4 Item#: fl056 These Coho casting flies are the Royal Coachman of the Coho Salmon world. Good anywhere saltwater Coho are actively feeding. Salt water hook. Try these in Florida or Mexico....we did.
Clouser Minnow - Pink/White Size: 4 Item#: fl055 These Coho casting flies are the Royal Coachman of the Coho Salmon world. Good anywhere saltwater Coho are actively feeding. Salt water hook. Try these in Florida or Mexico....we did.
Candle fish Size: 4 Item#: fl053 Excellent bait fish pattern when the salmon or SRC are focused on this primary food source. Another guide developed this as a great bright day fly at Neah Bay.... another really good bucktailer. Salt water hook. Try these in Florida or Mexico....we did.
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