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Brandywine Creek Woolly
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Dette Flies
Matched on Northeast & Mid-Atlantic, wet flies, trout. Catskill lineage fly shop with deep dry-fly, wet-fly, and Northeast trout relevance.
New England Fly Company
Matched on Northeast & Mid-Atlantic, wet flies, trout. New England tier lead for brook trout, landlocked salmon, and coastal striper patterns.
Fly Fish Food
Matched on wet flies, trout, caddis. Strong technical tying and trout catalog coverage, especially nymphs, dries, and stillwater flies.
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Matched on wet flies, trout, wet. Broad by-type catalog useful for common benchmark patterns and inexpensive backups.
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Delaware is the second-smallest state in the union, and most fly anglers drive through it without stopping, which is their loss and your gain. The Brandywine and White Clay creeks hold brown and rainbow trout in surprisingly good numbers, and this soft-hackle wet fly takes advantage of the prolific insect life that thrives in the piedmont's fertile limestone water. The hen hackle breathes in the current like a living thing, pulsing with each change in flow in a way that trout find more convincing than any stiff-hackled imitation. Swing it through the riffles on a late spring afternoon and you will wonder why you have been driving to Pennsylvania all these years when perfectly good trout were waiting twenty minutes from the interstate.
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Brandywine Creek
DE · Piedmont Stream
White Clay Creek
DE · Piedmont Stream
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