Designed a few years ago, the Alphlexo has become one of the most popular as well as effective flis in the saltwater arena, and of late, the freshwater arena. Designed for permit, this pattern has claimed GT's, Permit, Triggerfish, Bumphead parrot fish, Yellowfish, Grunter, and the list goes on.Richard Whitner looks to be the first person who tied the Alphlexo, but regardless of its origins it is one of the newer patterns we as South Africans fish.