StreamerintermediateAlaska
Flash Fly
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Available Sizes#2 - #2/0
Color Variations
CerisePink/WhiteChartreuseBlue/Silver
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Regional shopStrong match
Alaska Fly Fishing Goods
Matched on Alaska, streamer flies, salmon. Alaska-specific fly shop with fly categories for trout, char, grayling, salmon, and steelhead.
Alaskastreamer fliessalmon
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Fulling Mill Flies
Matched on streamer flies, salmon, streamer. Large pattern house with broad freshwater and saltwater fly categories.
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Big Y Fly Co.
Matched on streamer flies, salmon, streamer. Broad by-type catalog useful for common benchmark patterns and inexpensive backups.
streamer fliessalmonstreamer
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Murray's Fly Shop
Matched on streamer flies, streamer. Appalachian trout and smallmouth source with long-running regional fly catalog depth.
streamer fliesstreamer
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Orvis Fly Catalog
Matched on streamer flies, salmon, broad catalog. Broad retail catalog for standard trout, warmwater, salmon/steelhead, and saltwater patterns.
streamer fliessalmonbroad catalog
Visit sourceThe Flash Fly is the fly fishing equivalent of a neon sign outside a diner -- it is not subtle, and it does not pretend to be. Layers of flashabou create a strobe effect in the water that king salmon find either fascinating or infuriating. Either way, they eat it. In the murky glacial rivers of Alaska, visibility is everything, and this fly can be seen from the next zip code.
Quick Facts
TypeStreamer
Difficultyintermediate
SeasonsSummer
Target SpeciesKing Salmon, Silver Salmon
Sizes#2 - #2/0
Best LocationsKenai River, AK; Copper River, AK; Kodiak Island, AK
Where to Fish It
Kenai River
AK · Salmon River
Copper River
AK · Salmon River
Kodiak Island
AK · Salmon River
Map unavailable. Locations for Flash Fly: Kenai River, AK; Copper River, AK; Kodiak Island, AK
Related Reading
region guide
Alaska: The Last Frontier of Fly Fishing
Alaska is fly fishing distilled to its most primal form. Five species of Pacific salmon, trophy rainbow trout fattened on salmon eggs and flesh, Arctic grayling in waters that have never seen a hatchery truck — this is the complete guide to planning and fishing the Last Frontier.
seasonal playbook
The Summer Guide: Long Days and Willing Fish
Summer is fly fishing's season of abundance. Sixteen-hour days, prolific hatches, aggressive fish, and the full spectrum from mountain trout to saltwater flats. This is your playbook for making the most of the warmest, longest, most generous months of the fishing year.
species science
The Great Migration: Pacific Salmon Life Cycles
Pacific salmon are born in gravel, grow in rivers, vanish into the ocean for years, then navigate thousands of miles back to the exact stream where they hatched — to spawn and die. Their lifecycle is the most dramatic story in freshwater biology, and understanding it makes you a better angler.
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