Trout will eat just about anything they can swallow. Their diet will include aquatic insects, grasshoppers, snails, beetles, crayfish, frogs, mice etc.
“The trout is a carnivore, feeding on small fish and a host of insects that fly dressers world wide have spent centuries attempting to imitate with fur and feather.
Dry Flies
Dry flies represent adult aquatic insects or terrestrials like grasshoppers that ride in the surface film. There are several different insects to imitate such as mayflies, caddisflies, stoneflies, midges, terrestrials, damselflies, and dragonflies, as well as general attractor flies. Dries are the most widely used imitation and with good reason; any fly fisher will tell you that catching a trout on the surface is the ultimate fly fishing experience
Nymphs & Wet Flies
More than 80% of a trout feeding is one below the surface; translated this means that, a fly fisher can use this deadly method around the clock. Weighted flies, especially beadheads, are highly productive patterns especially when teamed with a dropper fly and an indicator.
Emergers
When aquatic insects rise to surface and begin the transformation from a nymph to adult trout are eagerly awaiting, totally vulnerable at this point trout charge up from the bottom to take these emerging insects. Unlike a fish sipping on mayflies making only a slight dimple, emergers are taken with much more aggression breaking the surface and creating a splash. Mayflies, Caddis, and midges are the most common types of emergers fly fishers imitate
Streamers
Streamers represent a broad range of fly patterns from woolly buggers to sculpin. Generally streamers are used to catch larger more aggressive trout, that chase and hit with authority. Usually weighted to get down quickly, always be ready for a thunderous strike soon after the fly hits the water.
