• View Our Live Mayfly Hatch Tracker

  • Want to know when the Mayfly are hatching in your area? View our live tracker page.
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  • Artisan Mayfly Patterns

  • The Highest quality mayfly patterns available on the market today - all tied using the best materials and on AHREX hooks.
View ALL Our Artisan Mayfly Patterns

  • The River Fly Anglers Almanac

  • The definitive guide to flies hatching on UK rivers (and the imitations to use).
Buy Your RIver Almanac Today - from only £12.99

  • What Flies Are Hatching In May? - Find Out Here

  • Flies specially selected for success when fishing in May
Flies For May

  • Tippet Materials & Tapered Leaders

  • The best quality tippet materials and tapered leaders for all methods
View All Our Tippet Material & Tapered Leaders

  • Your New Home For Salmon & Sea Trout Flies

  • We've transitioned our sister site (Salmon Flies UK) into our main site
View All Our Salmon & Sea Trout Flies

View Our Live Mayfly Hatch Tracker

Want to know when the Mayfly are hatching in your area? View our live tracker page. View Live Mayfly Hatch Information

Artisan Mayfly Patterns

The Highest quality mayfly patterns available on the market today - all tied using the best materials and on AHREX hooks. View ALL Our Artisan Mayfly Patterns

The River Fly Anglers Almanac

The definitive guide to flies hatching on UK rivers (and the imitations to use). Buy Your RIver Almanac Today - from only £12.99

What Flies Are Hatching In May? - Find Out Here

Flies specially selected for success when fishing in May Flies For May

Tippet Materials & Tapered Leaders

The best quality tippet materials and tapered leaders for all methods View All Our Tippet Material & Tapered Leaders

Your New Home For Salmon & Sea Trout Flies

We've transitioned our sister site (Salmon Flies UK) into our main site View All Our Salmon & Sea Trout Flies

Our Most Popular Flies for May

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Match The Hatch - Iron Blue

Our Iron Blue Match The Hatch (MTH) Selection will help you in your first forays of the season, these are generally the only upwinged flies on the water in April and with this selection we have you covered for all of its lifecycle stages.

Our Iron Blue Match The Hatch Selection is now in stock and ready for immediate delivery. It contains 15 flies - 3 each of the 5 different lifecycle stages:

  • Iron Blue Nymph - tied on an Ahrex FW501 - Size 16
  • Iron Blue Emerger - tied on an Ahrex FW511 - Size 16
  • Parachute Iron Blue - tied on an Ahrex FW503 - Size 16
  • Iron Blue Upright - tied on an Ahrex FW503 - Size 16
  • Iron Blue Spinner - tied on an Ahrex FW503 - Size 16

Iron Blue - Match The Hatch Selection - only £25

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The River Fly Anglers Almanac

Our ALL NEW River Fly Anglers Almanac outlines which flies are expected to hatch and which flies to use to best imitate them. It follows the fly fishing year - starting in March (and ending in February) - detailing the hatches and flies to use for each month. Along with all the hatches and fly info, there's a whole host of other new information, including specific insect info and hatch charts. Along with the supplied Diary & Catch Return book, there are even pages to jot down your fishing notes for each month.

Essentially this is a journal to accompany you throughout your river fly fishing year. Something you can annotate and make notes in, allowing you to refer back to in years to come - helping you ‘crack the code’ on those difficult days.

The River Fly Anglers Almanac - available now from only £12.99
Here at Barbless Flies we supply both individual flies and selections to the river & stillwater fly angler. We specialise in supplying fly fishing flies in the UK in size 14 and smaller. As you will see from the products on our website, we supply individual and boxed selections of flies (be it either nymphs, dries or a mixture of both). All of the flies we supply we have successfully fished with ourselves and have found them to be long lasting and excellent imitations. All of the flies featured on this website are hand tied using quality materials on barbless fly fishing hooks.

We do understand that any retailer (especially online) stands and falls by the quality of its customer service. Therefore we always aim to exceed your expectations ... give us a try, we think you will be pleasantly surprised!

We have decided that where we can, we would like to help preserve the natural environment for all the fish in our rivers. We have teamed up with a number of conservation charities (above) and are sending all our products in eco-friendly packaging. This allows us to send you your flies with no free plastic fly boxes, but more importantly for each selection we sell we are donating a small percentage to all charities on your behalf.

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Hatch Chat Blog

New & Updated for 2024 is our "Hatch Chat" blog - giving you detailed information on each of the main fly hatches you will find in UK waters. Click the button below to view - for email subscribers only.

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Our Most Popular Stillwater Flies

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Barbless Flies

The Old Parlour, 30a Wykeham

Scarborough, North Yorkshire YO13 9QP

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Saturday & Sunday, Closed

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