6 Must Have Trout Flies For Beginner Fly Fishing Anglers 

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I’m getting into fly fishing So I’m definitely going to have to buy that beginner pack when it’s in stock again

Your upload timing is perfect... Just planned a trip to the Yak this weekend. Thanks as always!

Thank you for the great video and information!!!!!

Love the vid and love the shop!

Excellent fly selection

Great informative video, thanks

I am not a fly fisherman, however I use flies on my spinner rods with floats, after watching your videos I am very excited to learn how to tie flies and use it to fish trout. Thanks for your videos

Great video

One small wiggle in the video is that palmering is not the standard dry fly hackling as found on the Adams. It is wrapping hackle along the shank, as with the Elk hair or Wolly Bugger.

The Adams and Elk Hair Caddis are two of my favourites. I also use klinkhammer style flies. One I find good during Summer, in faster water, is the Yellow Humpy. Beginners can’t go wrong, starting with your choices.

Cant argue with that list

DARTH BAETIS. My buddy Greg Garcia showed this to me years ago but it quickly became my favorite confidence pattern, simply b/c it works magic YEAR ROUND. I have caught tons of trout including my biggest trout on this fly in Colorado. Even when everyone was getting skunked on the river, this fly would work. I moved to SW Washington about 2 years ago and It works wonders here on the Deschutes & Yakima so far as well. I even caught a summer steelhead with it (though it was a dropper below a streamer). Great fly, comes in tons of colors but my favorite is black or grey.

Great review and solid picks for success. Add some bugs - ants, hoppers

Your list is great. Any list, though, that doesn't have some peacock on it is missing out. Two places I would put it are in the Elk Hair (EHC), and the Pheasant Tail (PT). Back in the 70s Fly Fisherman Magazine, the only mag at the time, had a pattern that was basically a down wing Royal Wulff. I forget exactly what the fly was like, but you could basically tie a Royal Wulff body on an EHC, and catch the same fish. At the time, fly fishing was in it's match the hatch and entomology period, and that pattern did not catch on. But today, we can think of the profile as more useful when not fishing to specific hatches, and we can think of the body as yummy peacock herl, and a hot point. Another great peacock fly is the Jorgensen Insult. One could think of it as a somewhat larger sized fly, Isonychia large, tied like a pheasant tail nymph, but with peacock. Peacock is just one of those Bamm! "Fish on!" materials. You can add it to many flies. For instance the Wooly Bugger is basically a variant of the Wooly Worm, and it was often tied with a peacock shell back . Etc... One downside to peacock is that it is seen as fragile. But if you tie your own flies, you may not care, and you can usually tie durable flies, even with peacock.

Mini Chernobyl is my go to fly.

I got the last one in stock! I can't wait to try these out on my next camping/fishing trip next month (June). Fish on! 🎣

Wish I saw something like this when I first started

I don't see the irresistible on anyone's list. As a beginner I had really good luck with that one. Still use it. Seems to work well in lakes. Thanks for the info.

One of my favorites is the King's River Caddis.

Nice list. A lot of dries there and big stuff. If I had to pick 6 (ouchy) they would be the following: 1 - Sz 8 Wooly Bugger in Olive/Black. 2 - Sz 16 soft hackle (partridge, thread, flash rib, peacock herl thorax). 3 - Sz 18 Craven's Mole Fly in rusty brown with black thorax (or peacock herl) and dun CDC. 4 - Egan's Red Dart in Sz 14. 5 - Sz 16 thread Frenchie in olive/brown pattern. 6 - Baby Gonga in a brown trout coloration (Olive or Brown over Yellow) in Sz 8.

Well done Blake. Natural in front of the camera. 12,345,678. That’s the number of fish caught using the flashback pheasant tail. I may have made that up. Great video.

Thank you so much for the video I will be visiting your web page to order some flies. I would like to ask before I do my ordering, I am going to be doing some fly fishing and some West Virginia high country mountain streams do you have any recommendations or any of your video watchers? Thank you in advance and I look forward to seeing my flies when they arrive

So I just clicked on your link to make a purchase and it says out of stock. Any idea when you will be getting this back in or not. And thank you for answering my question from yesterday

Do you offer all these fly's in a kit? If so I would buy one no questions asked!

When will you have the beginner fly box back in stock?

Maybe a stimulator in different sizes (14-8) and a variety of colors?

You skipped one that always catches in the very high pools and it’s the Stinky Fart Blossom. Always a hit.

you forgot the mosquito and blue winged olive

Thanks for the vid. For the editor: As a beginner I would have preferred more shots of the actual flies and less of the presenter. Maybe a picture-in-picture might have been a better format.