More Flies From the Vise

I thought I’d share a few more flies from the vise this week. I finished another fly order for a customer planning to fish the upcoming Salmonfly and Golden Stone hatch. They’ll begin showing themselves in late April and early May. In addition, you’ll find a link below to my recent YouTube videos.

Stonefly Imitations | www.johnkreft.com

This pile of flies include some Chubby Chernobyl in purple and Golden Stone and Clark’s Lady Stone to imitate Salmonflies and Golden Stones.

The image below is of a beautiful Metolius River Rainbow Trout taken on the Floating Nymph I highlighted on a recent Throw Back Thursday post.

Metolius Rainbow with BWO Floating Nymph | www.johnkreft.com

I decided to tie up a few BWO imitations in sizes 16 & 18 and see how they worked. This fish rose to a size 18 Improved Sparkle Dun, but didn’t hook up. I tried my RiverKeeper Soft Hackle Cripple with no success. The third fly was the charm and as this Rainbow rose to my fly, a smile slowly came to my face.

Here are a couple of new videos I published recently on my RiverKeeper Flies YouTube channel. The first one is a Chubby Chernobyl – Purple fly.

And the Norm Wood Special,

I’m sure you’ll see some more flies in the near future. I have several customers in line waiting for their flies.

Enjoy…go fish!

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