Small flies are essential to the salmon and trout fly box. We tend to forget that salmon and trout are more than ferocious predators – they are also highly adaptable critters that could blend into an environment and take advantage of the available food source. We tap into these skills when we reach for the small flies in our fly-box.
It could be in that slow pool where salmon and steelhead have settled down, where they will only encounter small hatching insects during summer – where a traditional salmon or steelhead fly would look very wrong and where presentation matters.

The sooner you get around this fact, the better. Pitching miniature flies to bigger fish has always been a heart beating topic, and we at Fishmadman love this sport, but you will have to accept the fact that you will be losing more fish than you might want to do. The flies are small, and to be able to present these flies correctly, they have to be fitted with tiny hooks, and such hooks may be bent outwards during great runs… and flies and hook may fly right out of the mouth of your dream fish when it tumbles across the surface… but we would say that this is far better than had you have never been able to hook-up with that same fish.