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RIVER INTELLIGENCE

Read the river.

A working read for live water, future windows, and the flies worth carrying.

Where do you want to go fishing?

START WITH A RIVER
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Where do you want to fish? A river plus timing is enough to start; target and style will tighten the plan.

Boxes built the way the guide builds them.

Curated dozens on name-brand hooks — Gamakatsu, Daiichi, Tiemco — priced by the fly: $3 nymphs, $4 dries, $5 streamers. Know what you want? Build your own in half-dozen steps from twelve.

The Michigan Nymph Dozen

12 FLIES

Twelve subsurface flies that fish every trout river in the state, July or January.

  • Pheasant Tail · #16 natural×2
  • Pheasant Tail · #18 natural×2
  • Hare's Ear · #14 natural×2
  • Caddis Pupa · #16 olive×2
  • Zebra Midge · #18 black×2
  • Tungsten Stonefly · #10 golden×2

The Summer Evening Dozen

12 FLIES

Caddis water at dusk, terrestrials in the heat of the day.

  • Elk Hair Caddis · #14 tan×2
  • Elk Hair Caddis · #16 olive×2
  • Parachute Adams · #14 gray×2
  • Sulphur Comparadun · #16 pale yellow×2
  • Foam Ant · #14 black×2
  • Chubby Hopper · #10 gold×2

The Classic Mixed Dozen

12 FLIES

The guide's default: six nymphs, four dries, two streamers. Start here.

  • Pheasant Tail · #16 natural×2
  • Hare's Ear · #16 olive×2
  • Caddis Pupa · #16 tan×2
  • Elk Hair Caddis · #14 tan×2
  • Parachute Adams · #16 gray×2
  • Mini Sculpin · #6 olive×2

The Big Water Eighteen

18 FLIES

Heavier rigs and meat for high, off-color water and the fish that hold in it.

  • Tungsten Stonefly · #10 golden×3
  • Tungsten Stonefly · #12 black×3
  • Pheasant Tail · #16 natural×3
  • Hare's Ear · #14 natural×3
  • Mini Sculpin · #6 olive×2
  • Mini Sculpin · #6 tan×2
  • Woolly Bugger · #8 olive×2

Build your own box

12 · 18 · 24

Pick your patterns in half-dozen steps starting at twelve — or tell the guide where you're fishing and start from its box.

  • Nymphs & wets$3
  • Dries & terrestrials$4
  • Streamers$5

Checkout arrives this month. The quarterly subscription ships first — $28 a box, $40+ at menu price.

A field manual,
built one chapter at a time.

The stuff nobody tells you when you start, written plainly. Read on the drive up.

Pick a river. Start the read.

Choose a river to load its local read, seasonal food, and starting box. The chat tightens it by date, target, and style.

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