TBT again! Here is one of my classic Adams flies I tied many years ago. My tribute to Len Halladay who originated the fly in the summer of 1922.
In some of my research, I came across this Youtube video of the story of Len Halladay. Hope you enjoy it!
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Bailey’s Ginger Quill. This fly pictured above was from a collection of flies tied by Dan Bailey. I was fortunate to be able to photograph a total of nine Bailey flies, a Light Cahill, Grey Hackle, Dark Cahill, Black Gnat, Black Bivisible, Blonde Wulff, Fan Wing Royal Coachman, Mosquito, and this Ginger…
If you fish dry flies, you know what I mean when I say Match the Hatch. Determine what is hatching on the river or lake that day and hopefully have a pattern or two in the fly box that will imitate the real bug and fool a fish. Sometimes it’s an easy answer. You look forward…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Roy Steenrod’s Light Hendrickson. In this week’s post entitled Using Wood Duck, Mallard, and Teal Feathers for Fly Tying, I tied a Quill Gordon fly and decided to look for another classic Catskill fly pattern to highlight for this week’s TBT. I found the Light Hendrickson in Eric Leiser’s…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Silver Brown – TBT, a fly tied by Roderick Haig-Brown (1908 – 1976). I took this picture of the Silver Brown through the glass display in a dark room and I think it turned out quite well. It was one of several flies in the collection and I…
We returned recently from fly fishing in Argentina with SET Fly Fishing, after spending 7 nights and 6 days fly fishing on the eastern side of the Andes Mountain range in the Patagonia region. Fishing is still fishing, whether here in North America or in the Patagonia region of Argentina and Chile. Rainbows are still…
We returned to Rakin Lodge with SET Fly Fishing in 2026 to fish for ten days. This year, they’ve incorporated fly fishing three days on the Rio Trocoman into their program. It’s a river we’ve fished the past three years (I’ll link those posts at the bottom of this page) and we were hoping to…
