Brown Trout

Royal Coachman

The Royal Coachman is an artificial fly that has been tied as a wet fly, dry fly and streamer pattern. Today, the Royal Coachman and its variations are tied mostly as dry flies and fished floating on the water surface. It is a popular and widely used pattern for freshwater game fish, particularly trout and grayling. Large streamer versions are also used for winter steelhead and Atlantic salmon.

Royal Wulff

Royal Wulff

First tied by Lee Wulff, this Royal Coachman variation is a staple in a trout fisherman's fly box. It imitates many types of mayflies as well as some terrestrials.

Rusty Spinner

The Rusty spinner is named due to the rusty colored body used to tie the fly pattern. As it turns out, the spent mayfly of a number of species turns a rusty color regardless of the original body color. Thus, the Rusty Spinner imitates a number of mayfly species.

San Juan Worm

Sulfur Dun

Tellico

This old timey pattern comes from eastern Tennessee and is a favorite pattern for many anglers in the Southeastern U.S. It's a simple and fun pattern to tie and fish still find it appealing. Try varying some of the body floss colors for different effects.

Western Green Drake

White Wulff

The White Wulff is the perfect pattern to imitate the Eastern Green Drake mayfly spinner. While this fly carries the namesake of the iconic fly tier Lee Wulff, it was actually developed in 1929 by Walt Dette and Ted Townsend as the Coffin Fly.

Woolly Bugger

The Woolly Bugger is one of the most effective fly patterns ever invented. It can catch nearly anything that swims and can be tied in hundreds of variants of color, weight, and materials.

Woolly Worm

The Woolly Worm is an artificial fly commonly categorized as a wet fly or nymph and is fished under the water surface. It is a popular pattern for freshwater game fish and was a very popular fly in the 1950s–1970s in the west. Charles Brooks in Nymph Fishing for Larger Trout recommends the Woolly Worm as a general purpose nymph pattern in most western trout waters in any fly box. Woolly Worms are typically fished in streams, rivers, ponds, and lakes for trout, bass, and panfish. Today, Woolly Worms are tied in a variety of styles and colors to imitate a large aquatic nymphs such as stoneflies, dragonflies, damselflies or hellgrammites.

Zug Bug