Flies

Umpqua Fly Pheasant Tail Emerger Mathews PMD
SKU: NFD9904

“My Pheasant Tail Emerger is tied to accomplish one purpose: to catch big, selectively feeding trout on Yellowstone Country’s spring creeks and rivers.

The PT Emerger pattern works its magic when fish are taking emerging mayflies struggling to shed their nymphal shucks and become fully formed duns.

I use pheasant tail fibers more than standard dubbings to imitate the bodies of these deadly dry fly patterns. The frilly nature of pheasant tail barbules trap air bubbles and naturally sparkle, closely imitating that of natural mayflies. The thorax is designed and imitated by dubbing blends to closely imitate the color of natural insects escaping their nymphal or pupal shucks. This incredibly effective pattern will work for catching the most selectively feeding trout on the planet!”

Signature Tyer Craig Mathews

Umpqua Fly Pizza Delivery Grillos Supreme 6
SKU: NFD9828

The Pizza Delivery was created in Chile in 2005 as an over-the-top laughable fly for Andrew’s clients to fish to the extra-large and often extremely gullible trout.

Clients would come from all over the world and proceed to ask Andrew what the predominant hatch they would be fishing would be, and he would notoriously reply “We’re going to fish pizza and hot dogs!”

The fly had a second coming during Andrew’s days of guiding the Gunnison Gorge in Colorado.

He often used it as his guide indicator fly and would often catch fish on it during the famed salmon fly hatch.

The fly has traveled the world at this point and has caught steelhead in the PNW & Canada, carp in Montana, as well as trout from Chile to Kamchatka!