Today’s Throw Back Thursday fly. This fly is a what we called the Stovepipe back in the day. It’s tied different than other Stovepipes flies I’ve seen. And was tied a LONG time ago. Makes me smile at my tying abilities back then. 🙂
Hope you enjoy this “blast from the past”!
What’s a person to do when a storm goes through and dumps a ton of rain and melts the remaining snow? Well, spring runoff means it’s time to tie more flies! Here is an image of the Metolius River at the Wizard Falls Bridge. This is the upstream side. And no, it’s not a common…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Dette Yellow Stonefly Nymph. I pulled out Mike Valla’s The Founding Flies and paged through to locate an interesting fly for this week’s post. The Dette Yellow Stonefly Nymph spoke to me. Walt and Winnie Dette are known for their beautiful Catskill dry flies. At least that’s…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Denny Rickards Seal Bugger. Denny created this fly in the mid-80’s on Oregon’s Upper Klamath Lake, his home waters. The fly is a variation of the popular Woolly Bugger. I’d seen this fly years ago, but found it again in Rickards Fly-Fishing Stillwaters for Trophy Trout (1997). It’s the…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Swannundaze Midge. The fly was developed by Boyd Aigner of Seattle Washington in the 1980’s. The Swannundaze Midge is one I tied many years ago that I found in Randall Kaufmann’s Tying Nymphs book. Tying Nymphs and Tying Dry Flies were two important books for me and I tied many…
Have you ever heard the term “throw back Thursday”? Seems to be fairly common on Facebook these days. So, several weeks ago I decided to start my own version. It will be my new Throw Back Thursday Fly posts. What does that mean, you ask? Good question. I post pictures of old flies along with…
Perhaps you saw last week’s post entitled Fishing the Lower Deschutes. I drifted the river twice last week. My fly box was full of Salmonfly and Golden Stonefly imitations. So I returned to my home river today and found many more PMD’s hatching and thought I better get my June fly box in order. Where…
That fly crushed the Metolius River for me when I was a kid learning to fly fish. I still have a few Stovepipes that are over 40 years old that I bought at the Camp Sherman Store.
They have to be a dark olive body or they aren’t the real thing