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Directory of New Zealand Trout Flies and Lures

For a photo, description and where to buy artificial flies and spinners used in New Zealand waters, select from the alphabetical list below.

Or see the contents of a typical New Zealand fly box. Probably the most popular all-purpose fly used in New Zealand is the Hare and Copper. Spinners commonly used in New Zealand include Mepps and Veltic.

  A

Adams >>>

Alexandra >>>

American March Brown >>>

Ant >>>

Ant, Black >>>

Awatea Rabbit >>>

Ausable Wulff >>>

Scotch Poacher

  B

Beaverkill, Male >>>

Beetle patterns >>>

Beetle, Brown >>>

Beetle, Great Lake >>>

Beetle, Green >>>

Beetle, Manuka >>>

Bibio >>>

Black and Peacock >>>

Black Ant >>>

Black Death

Black Flying Ant >>>

Black Ghost >>>

Black Gnat >>>

Black Marabou >>>

Black Nymph >>>

Black Phantom >>>

Black Rabbit >>>

Black Spider >>>

Black Tadpole >>>

Black Toby >>>

Black, Waipahe >>>

Blae and Black >>>

Blonde Wulff >>>

Blow Fly >>>

Bluebottle >>>

Blue Dun >>>

Blue Dun Wet >>>

Blue Dun, Iron >>>

Blue Smelt Rabbit >>>

Blue Upright >>>

Bradshaws Fancy >>>

Brown Beetle >>>

Brown Bivisible >>>

Brown Bomber >>>

Brown Nymph >>>

Brown Stone Fly >>>

Brown Woolly Bugger >>>

Brown Wulff >>>

Bucktail Caddis >>>

Bug Eye >>>

Buller Caddis >>>

Bumble Bee >>>

Bunny, Double >>>

Pheasant Tail

  C

Caddis Dry >>>

Caddis Emerger >>>

Caddis, Bucktail >>>

Caddis, Buller >>>

Caddis, Flash >>>

Caddis, Goddard's >>>

Caddis, Green Nymph >>>

Caddis, Green Larvae >>>

Caddis, Horn >>>

Caddis patterns >>>

Caddis, Tungsten Brown >>>

Caddis, White >>>

Cahill, Pink >>>

Carty's GT >>>

Cicada >>>

Claret and Mallard >>>

Coachman >>>

Cobra >>>

Coch-y-Bondhu >>>

Coloburiscus >>>

Copper, Hare and >>>

Craig's Night Time >>>

Crane Fly >>>

Creeper bait >>>

Creeper patterns >>>

Cricket >>>

Claret and Mallard

  D

Dad's Favourite >>>

Dad's Favourite Nymph >>>

Daddy Long Legs >>>

Damsel Fly >>>

Damsel Fly Nymph >>>

Damsel, Lake Swimming >>>

Dark Night-time patterns >>>

Deer Hair Brown Beetle >>>

Deer's Hair Sedge >>>

Dobson Fly Creeper >>>

Dollfly >>>

Dorothy >>>

Double Bunny >>>

Dun, Blue >>>

Dun, Little Sulphur >>>

Dun, Olive >>>

E

Emerger patterns >>>

Emerger, Caddis >>>

Epoxy >>>

Epoxy Buzzer >>>

Epoxy Halfback Nymph >>>

F

Faith, The >>>

Flamingo >>>

Flash and Peacock >>>

Flash Belly Pheasant Tail >>>

Flash Caddis >>>

Francis, Red >>>

Frog, Whitlocks >>>

Fuzzy Wuzzy >>>

G

Gary's Green Marabou >>>

Germ, Orange >>>

Ginger Mick >>>

Globug >>>

Gnat, Black >>>

Goddard's Caddis >>>

Gold Bead Hare and Copper >>>

Gold Toby >>>

Golden Spinner >>>

Gordon, Quill >>>

Gosling >>>

Gray Midge >>>

Gray Wulff >>>

Great Lake Beetle >>>

Green Beetle >>>

Green Caddis Nymph >>>

Green Caddis Larvae >>>

Green Dun >>>

Green Humpy >>>

Green Matuka >>>

Green Rabbit >>>

Green Stone Fly >>>

Greenwell's Glory >>>

Greenwell's Light >>>

Grey and Copper >>>

Grey Darter >>>

Grey Ghost >>>

Grey Sedge >>>

Grizzly Wulff >>>

Grouse and Purple >>>

Grub, Willow >>>

H

Hairy Dog >>>

Halfback >>>

Hamill's Killer >>>

Hardie's Favourite >>>

Hare and Copper >>>

Hare and Copper Gold Bead >>>

Hare's Ear >>>

Hare, Pheasant and >>>

Heckham's Peckham >>>

Hopes Silvery >>>

Hopper >>>

Horn Caddis >>>

Humpy >>>

I

Invicta >>>

Iron Blue Dun >>>

J

Jack Spratt >>>

K

Kakahi Queen >>>

Kilwell No. 1 >>>

L

Lace Moth>>>

Lacewing >>>

Lake Swimming Damsel >>>

Lead Eye Half Back >>>

Leaf Hopper >>>

Little Sulphur Dun >>>

Lord's Killer >>>

Love's Lure >>>

M

Makora >>>

Male Beaverkill >>>

Manuka Beetle >>>

Matuka, Green >>>

Marabou, Black >>>

Marabou, Red >>>

March Brown >>>

March Brown, American >>>

March Brown Spider >>>

Mataura Darter >>>

Mayfly patterns >>>

McLeod's Olive >>>

Mepps >>>

Mepps Syclops >>>

Midge patterns >>>

Midnight >>>

Molefly >>>

Montana Nymph >>>

Mother in Law >>>

Muddler Minnow >>>

Muppits >>>

Mrs Simpson >>>

N

Night-time patterns >>>

Night-time, Craigs >>>

O

Olive and Copper Tungsten >>>

Olive Caddis >>>

Olive Dun >>>

Olive Matuka >>>

Olive Quill >>>

Olive Stonefly >>>

Olive, McLeod's >>>

Orange Germ >>>

Orange Rabbit >>>

OTF >>>

P

Palmered patterns >>>

Palmer, Red >>>

Palmer, Soldier >>>

Parachute Adams >>>

Parsons' Glory >>>

Passionvine Hopper >>>

Peacock, Black and >>>

Perla >>>

Peveril O'Peake >>>

Peveril of the Peak >>>

Pheasant and Hare >>>

Pheasant Tail >>>

Pheasant Tail Emerger >>>

Pheasant Tail, Flash Belly >>>

Pink Cahill >>>

Prince Nymph >>>

Purple and Grouse >>>

Purple Jesse Nymph >>>

Q

Queen, Kakahi >>>

Quill Gordon >>>

Quill, Olive >>>

R

Rabbit >>>

Rabbit, Awatea >>>

Rabbit, Blue Smelt >>>

Rabbit, Black >>>

Rabbit, Orange >>>

Rabbit, Yellow >>>

Rapala >>>

Red and Black Nymph - see Hare and Copper

Red Humpy >>>

Red Marabou >>>

Red Francis >>>

Red Setter >>>

Red Spinner >>>

Red-tailed Halfback >>>

Red-tipped Governor >>>

Rotorua Green Wulff >>>

Rough >>>

Royal Coachman >>>

Royal Green Humpy >>>

Royal Humpy >>>

Royal Klinkhammer >>>

Royal Wulff >>>

S

Scotch Poacher >>>

Sedge patterns >>>

Sedge, Grey >>>

Silver Butcher >>>

Silver Toby >>>

Smelt patterns >>>

Snail patterns

Soldier Palmer >>>

Spider patterns >>>

Spider, Black >>>

Spider, March Brown >>>

Spinner, Golden >>>

Spinner, Red >>>

Spinner, Zed >>>

Stone Fly variants >>>

Sunset Rabbit >>>

Swimmer >>>

Syclops >>>

T

Tamati >>>

Tasmanian Devil >>>

Taupo Tiger >>>

The Faith >>>

Theo's Bombers >>>

Toby, Black and Gold >>>

Toby, Gold >>>

Toby, Silver >>>

Toby spinners >>>

Toe-biter, see Creeper patterns >>>

Trude Humpy >>>

Tungsten Brown Caddis >>>

Tups Indispensable >>>

Turkey Tail Nymph >>>

Twilight Beauty >>>

V

Veltic >>>

Vine Hopper >>>

W

Waipahe Black >>>

Wasp patterns

Water Boatman >>>

White Caddis >>>

Whitlocks Frog >>>

Wickham's Fancy >>>

Willow Grub >>>

Winged Bully >>>

Woolly Bugger >>>

Wulff patterns >>>

Wulff, Ausable >>>

Wulff, Blonde >>>

Wulff, Brown >>>

Wulff, Gray >>>

Wulff, Grizzly >>>

Wulff, Royal >>>

Y

Yellow Jacket >>>

Yellow Lady >>>

Yellow Rabbit >>>

Z

Zed Spinner >>>

Zulu >>>

 

Woolly Bugger

 

 

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