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Guide Flies
If you’re like me, there are probably a handful of flies that you use on a regular basis for one simple reason: They ALWAYS catch fish! Typically easy to tie and using few materials, these are the patterns we teacher newer tiers and place on the tippet of beginning fly fishers. Call them confidence flies, guide flies, go-to patterns…whatever. Just use them!
The fly featured here is a Utah Killer Bug, a variation of Frank Sawyer’s classic nymph. With few materials, this is a pattern nearly anyone can tie, plus the addition of a jig hook and slotted bead help to keep this pattern from snagging while fishing moving water. To see some of my favorite guide flies, click the link below.