Fly
Fishing Flies for Freshwater
Most
of our flies, Freshwater or Saltwater, are quite different than
the ones in your local fly shop or fly fishing catalogs.
When it
comes to dry flies, we carry a few of the more popular traditional
patterns like the Adams, Royal Wulff and Humpy but our best
sellers are Parachutes, No-Hackles and CDC’s.
These flies float
lower in the water and give a more natural silhouette. Parachutes
float especially well, a factor that contributes greatly to Fly
Movement on the water. Anglers are finally discovering that
naturals don’t always drift motionless.
In fact, more often than
not, they’re “on the move”. It takes a lot of practice, but
learning to skitter a dry fly naturally is one of the most
important skills to have in your bag of tricks. Parachutes float
and skitter better than conventionally hackled flies because they
have a much greater percentage of hackle fibers in contact with
the water.
They’re also much easier to see. Flies like Hare
&
Herl, Parachute Madam X, Speckl-X, Dancing Caddis and Para-Tractor
are dynamite searching patterns.
When
it comes to Nymphs and Strymphs, the Rub-A-Dub flies are
unequaled. Action is the name of the game in fly fishing,
actually, in any kind of fishing.
The Rub-A- Dub Dubbing provides fantastic “built-in” action to your flies
because it has dozens of tiny rubber-like fibers that “wiggle
& squiggle” all over the place.
It’s the deadliest stuff
I’ve ever put in the water, not only for Nymphs and Strymphs,
but for Dries and Streamers as well. Try our Georgie Boy and
Georgie Long Legs and I think you’ll be amazed.
Our
line of Streamers includes two all-time favorites, the Muddler and
the Wooly Bugger, but our deadliest and most popular patterns are
the Devil Leech, tied with Tasmanian Devil Hair, Buck-N-Bunny,
tied with rabbit, The Fluzzie tied with “Gator Hair, and our
Rub-A-Dub Streamers that utilize Rub-A-Dub.
Fly
Fishing Flies for Saltwater
Our
line-up of Saltwater and Bass Flies is also a bit on the
contemporary side. Except for Bob Marvin’s Happy Face and Tony
Tomsu’s STP Frog; both of which are dynamite surface patterns,
Sharon and I developed most of
the other flies during my guiding years in Florida’s
Backcountry. We “Had” to create new stuff.
When you’re
guiding you need to have flies that don’t tangle. With flies
like Deceivers, and other conventional saltwater patterns, it was
a constant battle, so we developed flies like the Sea Devil, Yella
Fella, Green & Mean and Hot Mama that totally solved the
problem.
These patterns took hundreds of snook, tarpon, jacks and
reds and became the staple of Saltwater Fly Fishing in Sunny South
Florida.
When
it comes to Bonefishing, there are dozens of flies on the market
but the best we’ve found are the Polar Bone, Bone-A-Boo and Dick
Nelson’s deadly Bonefish Killer.