For the longest time, anglers would tell me that what they landed their fish on was a San Juan worm. And even though I used various worm patterns, I never could seem to catch anything on one. Of ...

I recently had an interesting conversation with a client that left me wondering if most anglers believe the San Juan worm fly pattern is a junk fly used by guides because it's cheap and easy to tie.

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Long ago, in a fly-fishing life far away, I used to lean quite heavily on the Renegade as my dry fly of choice. I learned to fly fish on streams that lacked the kind of megahatches Montana is known ...