There’s always a new fly to add to your collection, but prudently working new patterns into your boxes while recognizing the paramount importance of technique can help keep you focused on streamlined and organized fly boxes. Clearly, YouTube and Instagram are both information sources and a problem. I recently woke up after dreaming Tim Flagler was at my desk filming Tim Cammisa, who was advising me what flies to tie for my upcoming Montana trip. New tying materials and social media influences can also exacerbate this organizational chaos.

Disjointed fly arrangements create inefficiencies that can negatively impact your fishing. And we all have hundreds of other superfluous “outlier” flies that can mix with our confidence patterns to the degree that opening your fly box is like cracking open a piñata. We all have our “go-to” patterns we use to consistently catch fish. Managing organized boxes of “go-to” trout flies is difficult without a strategy. The result is a list of 18 essential trout flies, and an explanation of the issues involved in coming to this conclusion. Delivering a “game changer” list seems improbable-pun intended, Blane Chocklett-but decidedly possible by using a wide spectrum of expert advice filtered with research and analysis.

This article was originally titled 'The Experts Voted on their Favorite Flies' in the Fly Fishing Made Easy 2023 special publication of Fly Fisherman magazine.Īre you ready for the most effective list of trout flies ever published? Such a declaration is reminiscent of Red Bull “giving you wings” or Volkswagen “clean diesel” campaigns.

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