Mosquito

The Mosquito is a slim, understated dry fly that imitates the adult mosquito and a range of small midges and crane flies that trout encounter year-round. Its sparse grizzly hackle, stripped peacock herl body, and slender profile create an impressionistic pattern that sits low and natural in the film.

Often overlooked in favor of flashier patterns, the Mosquito earns its keep during slow summer afternoons, in still backwaters, or on smooth-surfaced spring creeks where selective trout are picking off tiny surface insects.

Keep it in your box for those frustrating sessions when fish are rising to imperceptible food — the Mosquito often produces when nothing else will.