Our Best Fly Patterns

Depending on the season, the weather, the time of day, the time of year, and who knows how many other variables, selecting the right fly for the right moment is always a creekside endeavor. But that doesn’t mean that you don’t still need to make sure you have the right flies in your box when you come!

According to Jacob Ott of Otter’s Guide Service and Demian Wiles of First Light Outfitters, two of the guides you can choose to engage with when you fish at Escatawba, these are the best flies to pack in your kit for your trip to the Farm. Or, skip the fly shop altogether – if you hire one of our guides for your trip he will provide you with flies when you get here, so you’ll be set from that start!

  • Quill Gordon
  • Hendrickson
  • Blue Winged Olive
  • Caddisfly
  • March Brown
  • Sulphur Dun
  • Light Cahill
  • Stonefly
  • Brown Drake
  • Trico
  • Adams
  • Terrestrials Hoppers, Ants, beetles, Inchworms
  • Egg
  • San Juan Worm
  • Zebra Midge
  • Bead Head Nymphs
  • Wooley buggers