5 Trout Flies You've Never Heard Of

Cheat sheet: https://www.uglyflies.net/proportions... Five flies that time forgot. These are old, obscure, and unusual patterns that most tiers have never seen, but every one of them still catches fish. The Polish Woven Nymph is the woven-body pattern that helped kick off Euro nymphing, tied here with a two-tone woven back and belly. The Kite's Imperial is Oliver Kite's classic bare-bones dry fly, proof that a good pattern doesn't need much. The Peute is a French soft hackle whose name literally means "ugly," built around a single swept-back mallard feather and a silk body that darkens when it gets wet. The Reversed Parachute is Roy Christie's backwards-tied emerger, designed to sink the leader and cast no shadow, which makes it deadly on spooky, pressured fish. The Pass Lake is a forgotten 1930s wet fly out of Wisconsin, still barely known anywhere else, and just as good today as it was then.