Umpqua Fly Assortment Terrestrial Essential

Overview

Terrestrials are a staple of summer trout fishing, and Umpqua's Terrestrial Essential Fly Assortment packs 18 of them, two each of nine patterns, into a UPG slit-foam Essential Box. It covers hoppers, ants and beetles, the three land insects trout eat most.

From midsummer into fall, grasshoppers, ants and beetles fall or blow into rivers and lakes, and trout look up for them. They are big, high-calorie meals, and fish often take them with a confident, splashy rise. Most patterns here are foam, so they float all day and can carry a dropper when you want one.

How to Fish It

• Fish the banks: cast tight to grassy banks, overhanging brush and undercuts, where terrestrials fall in.
• Let it plop: land hoppers with a little splat; the sound gets a trout's attention.
• Twitch: a small twitch makes the legs kick like a struggling insect.
• Ants and beetles: fish these on lighter tippet for picky risers on flat water.
• Hopper-dropper: hang a nymph 18 to 24 inches below the bigger foam flies.

Choosing Color and Size

Each box holds two each of Paramore's Thunder Thighs Hopper Yellow, Schroeder's Parachute Hopper Tan, Dennis's Amy's Ant Olive, Drummond's Tim's Beetle 2.0 Green, Egan's Bionic Ant 2.0 Black, Chubby Chernobyl Gold, Stubby Chubby UV Cinnamon, Foam Hopper Golden and Potter's Fathead Beetle 2.0. Umpqua notes contents may vary with availability.