The Blue Winged Olive of all the species and sub-species of Baetidae are one of the most varied and common insects in American waters. We took the traditional pattern and improved upon it creating a pattern that floats high on the waters meniscus. This dry fly pattern is a simple must-have in the box in all sizes, as your chances of encountering this bug are almost guaranteed if you fish for trout frequently.
Many fly fishers have been baffled by rising trout that seem to ignore every pattern in the fly box. Often these selective fish are keying on spent mayflies. Trout rising to spinners often sip them...
The Thorax Blue Winged Olive was created to have the exact profile and impression of a mayfly dun on the water. The hackle is trimmed on the bottom of the fly which makes it land upright and float...
Blue Winged Olive Parachute flies are very popular in fly fishing due to their combination of visibility and fishability. This fishing fly closely resembles a hatching Blue Winged Olive dun, floats...
Al Caucci and Bob Nastasi introduced the Comparadun style of dry fly in the early 1970 and wrote about it in their manualHatches (and Hatches II ). The BWO Comparadun sits...
Bunny Duns are becoming popular for fishing to selective trout in some of the more well known fly fishing waters. The Blue Winged Olive Bunny Dun has a lifelike mayfly shape and, unlike most...
Any trout fisher that has spent a frustrating time trying to imitate BWOs in a heavy hatch only to watch every pattern get ignored will love the Crippled Blue Winged Olive. Trout sometimes ignore all...
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