Tightline Productions

If you do a Google search for “spent partridge caddis,” you’ll find that many different patterns—most with full or trimmed hackle—go by this name. This version, tied by author and blogger Matt Grobert, is a no-hackle pattern that features a thorax of bushy hare’s ear dubbing where others put the hackle. The result is a low-riding, subtle. . .

The Frenchie’s weight and red hot spot make it a good winter pattern, too.

The Frenchie nymph is really little more than a Czech-nymphing variation on the classic Beadhead Pheasant Tail Nymph we’ve all got in our boxes. The use of Coq de Leon for the tail and the . . .

Cal Bird owned a small fly shop in San Francisco in the 1940s and ’50s, and he created the Bird’s Nest in 1959 as a caddis-pupa imitation to use on the Truckee River. Most anglers now . . .

In much of the country, winter means fishing subsurface patterns almost all the time, but there are magical moments when the trout come to the surface. While the sight of these rises can be . . .

Fly tier Bob Brooks created the Sprout series of emerger flies while serving as the riverkeeper of Hot Creek, near Mammoth, California. The bright white foam post makes even tiny flies easy. . .