Today’s Throw Back Thursday fly is the Renegade, an attractor fly developed in 1928 by Taylor “Beartracks” Williams. It’s said the original fly had all white hackle and was changed to brown/white when “Beartracks” moved to Sun Valley.
Another story states George Herter claimed it was an English fly pattern named the Marryat, tied by Mrs Edith Cox in the late 1800s and named for George Marryat.
Whatever the truth is, it’s still an effective fly, although forgotten by many.
I wrote a post last year about this time to share the basic flies I needed to carry in my May fly box. This week, I decided to update the information and flies. But first, I have to say I find it hard to believe it’s the first of May! Perhaps it’s a sign of…
I made a presentation earlier this year to a fly club about how to plan a Patagonia fly fishing trip and thought my readers on RiverKeeper Flies might be interested in the topic. I’m not an expert by any means, but have traveled to several lodges in northern, middle, and southern Patagonia over the last…
In my last post, I mentioned we were evacuated from Valle del Carrileufu Lodge after only 6 hours because of a large wildfire very close to the lodge. Our initial plan was to stay at the lodge for four nights and fish around an in Los Alerces National Park. That night we began what I…
This week’s odds n ends post has a variety of items you may be interested in. Be sure to read all the way through. First off, there are definitely signs of Fall everywhere I look. From leaves beginning to change on the river… …to something we usually don’t see …bucks in our backyard, except when…
We arrived at Black Bear Lodge on Sunday afternoon, 6/22/26 and fished for three days, hoping we’d find Green Drakes on the Upper Columbia River just below the US/Canadian border. We left our home waters, the Metolius River hoping to find more Green Drakes. I hope you read the last post about Chasing the Green…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Quigley Cripple PMD version. The Quigley Cripple was developed by Bob Quigley in the late 1970’s for Northern California’s Fall River. As the story goes, Bob was fishing a Humpy and catching fish with it. The wing got chewed up and he caught many more fish with…
