Chartreuse Grizzly Gold Digger Streamer | Trout & Bass Fly Maybe A Pike or Two Some flies earn a spot in the box for a season. The Sugar Momma earns it for good. This chartreuse grizzly marabou streamer was built for brown trout, and browns eat it in every month of the year: cold-water slow […]

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Orange Grizzly Sugar Momma: Crawfish Streamer for Trout & Bass Some flies earn their spot in your box over one good season. The Orange Grizzly Sugar Momma earned it over years of hard fishing in Montana. It’s a buggy, translucent streamer that big brown trout eat in every month of the year, and it moves […]

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Bright Purple Grizzly Sugar Momma: The Purple Streamer That Moves When You Don’t Some flies need you to work them. The Sugar Momma works on her own. Bright purple grizzly marabou, a sparse wine-colored body you can see light through, and a mallard flank and chickabou collar that pulse with every change in current. Hang […]

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Olive Grizzly Sugar Momma: The Streamer That Moves When You Don’t Some flies only fish when you’re stripping them. The Olive Grizzly Sugar Momma fishes all the time. Grizzly-barred marabou, see-through predator dub, and a chickabou collar keep this fly breathing on the pause, the drift, and the dead stop. That’s usually when the eat […]

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Dave’s Gallatin Stonopper A guide-proven dry fly built for big water and bigger appetites. Developed and tied by a working Montana guide, Dave’s Gallatin Stonopper was built specifically for the heavy stonefly hatches of the Gallatin River — but its buggy profile, natural movement, and lifelike silhouette have made it a producer well beyond Montana’s […]

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Foam-Backed Attractor Dry | Salmonfly/Hopper Style Pattern Big water needs a big, ugly, impossible-to-miss dry fly — and Monster of Purple was built to be seen from across the run. Tied in the classic salmonfly/hopper silhouette, this pattern trades the usual orange-and-black for a loud purple profile that trout can’t ignore, especially on pressured Rocky […]

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Brings Out the Barbie in Every Rainbow Most hopper-stones get tied to look good in your hand. This one’s tied to look good from underneath — because that’s the only angle that matters to a trout. The Pink Belly Hopper-Stone runs a two-tone foam back: bruiser purple on top for a natural silhouette against the […]

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Firecracker Sallie A Cutthroats Wet Dream There’s nothing subtle about the small golden salmonfly hatch, and the Firecracker Sallie isn’t trying to be subtle either. This pattern starts with a two-sided foam back — green on top to match what the trout see against the sky, yellow underneath to nail the natural’s belly color when […]

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Obsidian Ovipositor Stonefly (alt: Grumpy’s Black Glitter Hopper-Dropper) Built for the moment when stoneflies and hoppers overlap and trout are keying on anything big, black, and bouncing. The Obsidian Ovipositor is a two-sided foam pattern that pulls double duty as a hopper on top and an egg-laying stonefly underneath — fish it either way and […]

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Sunbaked Hopper No Sunscreen Needed Built for those late-summer days when the banks are dry, the grass is gold, and the hoppers are everywhere. Orange foam on top puts a bold, high-visibility silhouette on the water that’s easy to track from a distance — even in broken riffles or low light. Flip it over and […]

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