Umpqua Alaska Essentials 22 Piece Fly Assortment

The Umpqua Alaska Essentials 22 Piece Fly Assortment is a must-have box for Alaska because it covers the core food sources and trigger bites that Alaska fish key on all season. From skating mice to swinging leeches and stripping baitfish, this set gives you proven patterns for trout, steelhead, and all five Pacific salmon species.

Why We Like It

This assortment is expertly curated so you are not guessing what to pack for Alaska, you get a tight lineup that matches the real menu: mice, flesh, eggs, leeches, smolt, and sculpins. With 22 total flies across essential patterns and colorways, it gives you backups for the flies you will fish hard. It also comes housed in Umpqua's waterproof Bug Locker, which matters when rain, spray, and wet hands are part of the trip.

What's Included

• Dolly Llama, Black/White [2]
• Dolly Llama, Hot Pink/Purple [2]
• Waking Mouse 2.0 [2]
• Mr. Hankey: Hickman's [2]
• Egg Sucking Leech, Black [2]
• Egg Sucking Leech, Purple [2]
• Flesh Fly [2]
• Bunny Leech, Black [2]
• Kilowatt, Black/Blue: Watt's [2]
• Skiddish Smolt, Natural: Hickman's [2]
• Bandit Sculpin, Olive: Anderson's [2]

Key Benefits

• Built for Alaska species, including steelhead, trout, kings, silvers, chums, sockeye, and pinks
• Covers multiple feeding modes, swinging and stripping streamers, skating topwater, and drifting flesh and egg-style patterns
• Two of each fly so you can replace a fly after a chew, a snag, or a lost fish without changing your plan
• Waterproof Bug Locker keeps flies and your box protected in wet boats, rain, and river spray

Use Cases

• Salmon rivers when fish respond to flesh and egg-style meals behind spawning activity
• Trout waters where big meals like sculpins and smolt get fewer but harder takes
• Clear to slightly off-color flows when bright accents like hot pink and purple help fish find the fly
• Remote trips where you need one compact box that can handle changing conditions and species

Comparisons

Umpqua Alaska Essentials 22 Piece Fly Assortment vs building your own Alaska fly box:

Building your own box lets you pick exact sizes and styles, but it takes time and you can still miss key categories like mice, flesh, and baitfish. This assortment solves that by giving you a balanced spread of Alaska staples in one purchase, plus doubles so you are not stuck after one fly gets destroyed.

Umpqua Alaska Essentials 22 Piece Fly Assortment vs a leech-only streamer pack:

A leech pack is great when swinging or stripping is the only plan, especially for salmon and steelhead. This assortment goes wider by adding topwater with the Waking Mouse 2.0 and adding meal patterns like flesh and baitfish, which helps when fish shift away from chasing black leeches.

Umpqua Alaska Essentials 22 Piece Fly Assortment vs a trout-only Alaska assortment:

Trout-focused assortments often lean heavy on sculpins and baitfish and may not cover salmon-driven situations like flesh and egg triggers. This box is built to span trout and salmon water, so you can stay ready when your day switches from trout in side channels to salmon in the main river.