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This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Benn’s Black Prince TBT. Benn’s Black Prince was created by John Benn. It’s one of the flies listed in John Shewey’s book Classic Steelhead Flies (2015). Benn was a famous fly tyer and angler in the late 1800s. He lived in the San Francisco Bay Area and ventured to the Eel…

Fly fishing the Henry’s Fork of the Snake River was the last stop on our fly fishing road trip. We only fished an afternoon, evening and the following morning. Even though it was a quick stop, it certainly was memorable. I’ve only fished the Henry’s Fork a handful of times and still consider myself a…

Last week I wrote that I should start tying some flies with all the feathers I have. Well, I decided to go a little different direction. After all, it’s winter. We had our first snow last week and the highs this coming week are forecast for the low 30’s. When I got up this morning,…

This is a post Steve Haigh from The Destination Angler published on 3/2/2026 to summarize the episode we recorded with him titled Dry Fly Nomads Across the American West | John & Karen Kreft. I shared links to his YouTube channel and podcast earlier, but if you didn’t have time to watch or listen, here…

Last week, my wife and I helped with planting Spring Chinook fry in Whychus Creek. It was the last batch of salmon scheduled to be planted in the Deschutes basin during 2017. This was a special day for us because these Spring Chinook fry were planted above the town of Sisters, OR, where we live….