The best mouse pattern in the industry (in my opinion). Nearly indestructible, will fish correctly all day long, and securely hooks fish without excessive damage. Developed on two of the world’s best mouse fisheries, Alaska’s Kanektok and Arolik rivers.
Grillos' Spin Doctor
Most spinner patterns are quite delicate and do not hold up to catching more than a couple fish. This one relies on tough synthetic materials and a couple tying techniques seen throughout my dry flies. This spinner will hold up to many fish and will float as long as the fish are still rising.

Grillos' Stranger Thing
This minimalist streamer pattern of mine has a ton of enticing movement in the water as well as drops quickly, as it isn’t a very bulky pattern. This guy rides with the point up as well, so it’s less likely to snag the bottom. Stripped, swung, twitched, or dead-drift, this fly has been extremely effective for me.

Grillos' Superior Spruce Moth
The spruce moth is a relatively new hatch to pursue, their population has been increasing in SW MT for at least 5-10 years. Sort of like a wide-bodied caddis, these moths get a great deal of attention from fish when they are around. This is also a great general attractor that would travel well anywhere.

Grillos' Captain Crunch
My hybrid of a muddler, intruder, and sculpin. One of the best trout spey flies I’ve ever fished. This doesn’t sink too fast, allowing your sink tip to keep the fly at the desired depth. The larger size has claimed its fair share of steelhead as well. Discontinued.

Grillos' Escape Artist
This little peeking caddis pattern was developed for fishing on the Arkansas River in Colorado and has traveled very well to most any river with cased caddis. One of my largest MT brown trout has actually been taken on this little fly, dead-drift through a thigh-deep riffle. Discontinued.

Grillos' Fat Caddis
One of my favorite little caddis/terrestrial imitaitons I’ve created. The two-layer foam body combined with a two-layer elk hair wing makes for a very buoyant little dryfly. This was one of my mose effective New Zealand flies when I was there for the winter of 09/10 as well. Discontinued.

Grillos' Foam Dome
Inspired by those terrible “rastaman” strike indicators that are made up of strips of foam. This fly floats really well and fish eat it well enough. The larger, salmonfly sizes worked the best. Honestly not the greatest thing I created, which is why it was discontinued.

Grillos' Later Skater
My skating caddis pattern that works well any time fish are looking up for caddis or general dries. This fly is designed to skitter on the surface film, even when the angler mends, twitches, or strips the fly. This was featured in Catch Magazine’s “Fly Fishing for Cutthroat Trout.” Sadly, discontinued.

Grillos' 19th Hole Mysis Shrimp
Developed on Colorado’s Taylor River after spending 4-5 days a week for a winter season obsessing over the Taylor’s huge trout. Until I developed this fly there wasn’t a mysis imitation that was as accurate as mine. Discontinued.

Grillos' Sideshow Bob
This fly used a styrofoam strike indicator for the parachute post. For a few years I was pretty obsessed with utilizing these buoyant orange balls, “Bobs,” in my tying. This fly worked well enough but was not my best effort. Discontinued.

Grillos' Bob Barker
This caddis pattern was another one of my creations that used a Styrofoam strike indicator for buoyancy. It was super buoyant and would float a weighted nymph, however it tended to float on its side and twist leaders. It was not my greatest effort. Discontinued.
