Blue Winged Olive - BYO Nymph

Blue Winged Olive Emerger RS2, Baetis or Blue Winged Olive Mayflies are a spring and fall hatching insect, critically important to trout. The hatches can be exciting to fish, especially if you have the right fly pattern with the correct...

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 well, lands right side up, and is easy to follow even in...

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 of the healthy mayflies during a hatch and only eat...

Blue Winged Olive Traditional continues to prove itself as a top producing pattern. This basic pattern floats well, is durable, and has a silhouette fish love. These characteristics will keep this pattern in fly boxes for years to come.

  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 CDC dry flies, it can be treated with a liquid fly...

Para Wulff Blue Wing Olive is one of the easiest patterns to see on the water with its two split "Wulff" style wings, horizontal hackle and split tail. The flashy Mylar rib adds a lifelike segmenting that grabs attention and imitates...

Blue Winged Olive Baetis Comparadun is a very effective pattern for selective fish. The subtile colors of this fly closely match natural mayflies found on the water and fish respond with strikes that will test light tippet.

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. The numbers of trout flies that represent these are legion and include some of the most common and well-known patterns...

Fly fishers who frequently encounter highly selective trout will enjoy CDC Blue Winged Olive. The floatation qualities of CDC make it possible to fish this sparse and realistic dry fly without having to worry about dressing it on every cast.

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 naturally. Selective fish have a hard time refusing this...

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 flush to the surface of the water with wings straight...

Fly fishers casting to such selective trout find that the transluscent Xelon or Z-lon wings on these Blue Winged Olive Spinners gives them the realistic impression that makes the difference. Spinners are especially effective patterns after the hatch when...