Fly Fishing Gear | Saltwater Flies

Pink, for dirty water and low light Pink holds its contrast when the water is stirred up and the light is flat, which makes this the Clouser to rea...

More permit than any other fly ever tied Del Brown and Captain Steve Huff built this in the mid 1980s and it has accounted for more fly-caught perm...

Whiting will chase a fleeing prawn to the surface This is the one fly in the shrimp box you fish on top. Sand whiting hunt prawns hard in the shall...

Pink, for the days you cannot see the bottom Once the water carries colour or the light drops away, a natural shrimp stops being visible before a f...

Tan over white, the colours a real shrimp wears A shrimp on a sand flat is close to invisible from above and pale from below, which is exactly what...

Built for smallmouth, adopted by everything with fins Bob Clouser tied the first of these on the Susquehanna in 1987 with smallmouth bass in mind, ...

Green over silver, which is what schooling bait looks like Most small fish that school in Australian estuaries and along the beaches are some versi...

Pearl throws light the way scales do Pearl material does something flat white cannot: it refracts, so the fly changes tone as it turns and throws o...

Noise first, and they come looking A popper does not need to look like anything. It works because a foam face pushing water sends out a disturbance...

The quiet version, for fish in skinny water Bonefish and flats fish in shallow, calm water spook at the entry of a heavily weighted fly, which is w...

The fly that taught bonefish flies to ride point up Charlie Smith tied the first one on Andros in 1977 and Bob Nauheim gave it the name, and it cha...

A prawn, moving the way a prawn actually moves James Christmas designed this one on the Alphonse flats, and the profile translates straight to Aust...

The shrimp to carry if you only carry one Some flies earn their place by being specialists and some by covering everything, and this is firmly the ...

The sand shrimp that also works in fresh water This is the shrimp end of the same family: a smaller, lighter profile than a prawn pattern and bette...

The same fly, tied to get properly down Chartreuse over white is the classic baitfish combination, a light belly and a bright back, which is roughl...

Small, for the days they are eating small Estuary fish get locked onto whatever size bait is running, and when that bait is little a big fly gets i...

Lands softly and sinks slowly, which is the point Fish in shallow, calm water hear a fly land before they see it, and a heavy pattern dropping in f...