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Whether you are trying to fill a box for saltwater or warm water, this baitfish pattern is a great place to start.
Perdigon flies were made popular by Spanish competition anglers because they sink quickly and catch a lot of fish. Learn to tie the Perdigonish fly here.
Anglers love this Stimulator pattern because of its effectiveness and versatility. It's a great searching pattern when you're unsure of what trout are targeting, and it floats well enough to hold up a nymph tied on as a dropper rig.
Originally tied as a low-riding caddis dry fly, this is the El Vato Nymph: a quick-sinking bug that comes together with a few creatively used materials.
Imitation....er....attractor pattern? This stonefly is a great blend of attractor components and lifelike features.
Hot-headed attractor pattern. This is a great little fly that looks something like a Bird's Nest... and nothing really like a Bird's Nest.
A simple little Rhyacophila Caddis nymph. This is tied on a competition-style hook and can easily be embellished with a little extra flare.
This week on Loon Live we've got some love for the meat chuckers and the European nymphers, so come one and come all!
Two bugs that have one thing in common: fish eat them! They might be fished differently, use different techniques and materials and appeal to different species of fish, but they both deserve a little bit of Loon Live love.
A couple of deep swimmers who get down fast, and stay down until they've found what they're looking for: trout.
A Prince patterns that incorporates some new materials and a special dubbing blend that makes it worth checking out. This is a great attractor pattern that gets down quickly.
A soft hackle and March Brown. Two fun little patterns that aren't too flashy but have a ton of movement in the water.
Why not take a perfectly good fly pattern, dissect it and add something new to create a new variation?
A nifty little Euro/competition style nymph and a Balanced Bugger. These are essentially variations on well-known patterns, but you'd do well to add them to your fly box!
A rainbow trout streamer that can be easily modified to look like any baitfish or other freshwater trout, and a Golden Stone nymph with a few twists.
Lance Egan ties one of his favorite stonefly patterns -- a variation of the Pat's Rubber Leg Stone.
Matt is back on the vise this week tying up a couple cool patterns: a bunny streamer and a caddis nymph.
A popper bodied rainbow trout and an extended-body Hexagenia dry.
A little bit of everything; articulated streamer, a dry fly, and a stillwater damselfly pattern.
A juvenile fish imitation called the Fingerling and a soft hackle spin on John Barr's masterpiece Copper John, called the Softer John.
Not just dry flies, but big dry flies! A salmonfly and a Stimulator!
PMD-style rubber leg / poxy-back; it's not as crazy as it sounds, but it is bullet proof and catches fish like crazy.
A jig hook, a hot spot and the perfect amount of flash make this an excellent trout nymph.
The bird's nest is a classic, but this version has some new twists and the addition of a hot spot on the wing case.
This is Fly Fish Food's variation on the popular Game Changer streamer from Blaine Chocklett. A great multi-articulated streamer pattern.
Plays well as a Blue Winged Olive nymph, and is just as effective as PMD nymphs and Callibaetis nymphs.
A versatile aresenal with a bunny streamer, a small softy and a jig!
The nymph version of Matt Callies's Big Arse Soft Hackle. This is a stonefly with all the bells and whistles.
March Madness is not just a basketball tournament. It's also a great time for some nymph fishing.
The Jig Bird is a modernized Bird's Nest (on a jig hook of course) and the Awe Shucks is a Green Drake emerger that will have you dreaming about spring.
We're grateful to have Mike demonstrate a couple of his patterns: the Twisto Caddis and Missing Link.
The Solar Panel Nymph is a style of pattern that can be used with mayflies, stoneflies and even caddis larva.
Another hot little buzzer or chironomid pattern. Great for imitating the bugs just a they're getting ready to pop.
The Grey Boy is a popular and very effective buzzer or chironomid pattern for lakes and reservoirs. This is one of our favorites.
The Oil Slick buzzer is one of my most effective chironomid or buzzer patterns in recent years. Give it a try.
An articulated zombie (Frankensteinish) streamer pattern borrowing aspect from some of our other streamers.
An unweighted fun to tie mayfly nymph. Great for callibaetis or baetis (BWO) nymphs fishing just sub-surface.
The M3 Baetis, from Michael Faulkinbury, uses minimal materials but is an effective mayfly nymph.
The Ice Hare's ear is an effective variation of the standard pattern and it's super-easy to tie.
If you need a smaller more sparkly but svelte bloodworm imitation for smaller midges on rivers or even lakes, this is the ticket.
This is a great leech/bugger pattern with some added bling to it. A fish-catching machine.
The Deep Dish is a great nymph to cover your callibaetis waters as well as brown drake waters
The quill pupa is a smaller version of a common style of bigger chironomids or buzzer style flies.
This is an upgraded version to the previous Belly Scratcher Sculpin now with more realistic fins.
From Fly Fish Food's Low Fat series, this is a great little minnow that imitates a bluegill
Delivery Man is the first in the Andersson Series that isn't "exactly" geared toward trout.....this is a toothy pattern.
The Fat Sancho is a saltwater shrimp imitation. It's a realistic imitation that's relatively easy to tie.
The Belly Scratcher Sculpin is a more realistic pattern than previous ones and very effective.
From Fly Fish Food's Low Fat series, this is a great little minnow that imitates a perch.
