Technique Guide
Dry Fly Pairings
A single floating fly presented with a drag-free dead drift to a trout rising during an active hatch, with no dropper fished beneath it. Already decided on dry fly? Below are all 8 sourced dry fly pairings TroutTips tracks, from every river and season, filterable by river and season. For help choosing a technique in the first place, see Choose Your Technique.
8 sourced pairings
Dry Fly across every river we track
Up to 2 pairings are always free to browse in full. Fly names, leader/tippet spec, and full source are unlocked by .
Runoff
Single fly pattern
Fall
Single fly pattern
🪰 Hatching now: Blue-Winged Olive
Winter
Single fly pattern
🪰 Hatching now: Blue-Winged Olive
Early Spring
Single fly pattern
🪰 Hatching now: Caddis
Summer
Single fly pattern
🪰 Hatching now: Pale Morning Dun
Summer · commonly paired
Single fly pattern
Summer
Single fly pattern
Summer
Single fly pattern
🪰 Hatching now: Caddis
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