I’m starting to read Tying Catskill Style Dry Flies by Mike Valla and thought of a Catskill fly I tied years ago. This Light Cahill is from a class taught by Dave McNeese. Perfect for a Throw Back Thursday Fly.
Similar Posts
Chernobyl Ant
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Chernobyl Ant. It’s an attractor fly pattern and can imitate cicada, crickets, grasshoppers, and stoneflies. Larry Tullis of Orem, Utah relays the fly’s development in Tying Flies with Foam, Fur, and Feathers by Harrison Steeves. Larry tied up a foam body cicada from a beach sandal in the late…
Alec Jackson Fancy Spade – Red
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Alec Jackson Fancy Spade – Red. I posted another TBT fly recently that Alec Jackson had tied, called the Spade. After a little more research, I believe it is a Fancy Spade tied with natural peacock and black ostrich. This fly appears to use dyed ostrich for…
Black Gnat Dry Fly
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Black Gnat dry fly. I had an earlier Black Gnat wet fly as a TBT fly, but Dancing Trout found this fly along the river and it’s been in her fly fishing pack for a while. It looked like a good candidate for today’s TBT post. To…
Improved Chaos Hopper TBT
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Improved Chaos Hopper TBT. It’s no coincidence I chose the Improved Chaos Hopper for this week’s post. I saw a picture earlier this week of a beautiful Brown Trout posted by Blue Ribbon Flies in West Yellowstone. The fish ate a hopper fly pattern!
Sanchez’s Double Bunny
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Scott Sanchez’s Double Bunny streamer. Sanchez states he first thought about this fly in 1988 on a trip to Belize. His inspiration for the fly were two other flies they were using, a Kiwi Muddler and a FisHair Cuda Fly. He wondered what might happen “if I put…
Skunk
Today’s TBT fly is the Skunk, an old steelhead pattern and keeping with the theme in this week’s blog post – Steelhead Flies. I tied this Skunk fly many years ago.
