Today’s Throw Back Thursday is another fly from one of the vintage fly wallets in my collection. And I don’t know the name of it. This wet fly is one I’d fish as a hatching caddis, swimming towards the surface. Perhaps a size 12? If you know what it is, please let me know…a Black Gnat?
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Ray Bergman’s Ibis and White. Bergman’s Ibis and White is a wet fly listed in his book entitled Trout (1940 – fourth printing) on page 64, Plate No. 4. As I’ve mentioned many times, I enjoy highlighting a Bergman wet fly because it forces me to sit down and tie…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Fan Wing Royal Coachman. This Fan Wing Royal Coachman was tied by Dan Bailey. It’s one of nine flies I was able to document with my camera. Last week’s TBT fly, the Black Bivisible, is the first fly I posted that was tied by Dan. Here is…
I wanted to share a recent experience on my home waters, fishing the Metolius. My preferred style of fishing is casting a dry fly to rising fish, but if I want to increase my odds of catching a fish, I would have a better chance fishing with nymphs during winter months. Read on and I’ll…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Hatchmaster, a fly pattern developed in the 1930s. Originally known as the Two-Feather Fly, it was created by Harry Darbee for a fisherman named Terrell Moore to solve a problem of getting large mayflies to land on the water softly and eliminate the bulk and weight. Some…
It’s the middle of October and I’m realizing the end of the season for dry fly fishing is quickly approaching. If you are a regular here at RiverKeeper Flies, you know how much we love our dry fly fishing. Searching for insects on the water and following hatches bring us a lot of joy. But…
I hope you were able to check out my 2019 Fly Fisher’s Christmas List I posted last week. I’ve had a couple people recently ask me for book recommendations, so I thought I’d add a few more items to the list. Some are from my favorite Fly Fishing and Fly Tying Books page. The books…
Definitely looks like what I learned as a Black Gnat wet fly from my father. He was a part time, local commercial fly tier. He tied trout flies for a couple of local sporting goods stores and tied Coho flies (to be trolled for silvers/cohos) for the local marina shop and boat house. He taught me the basics of tying in my early to mid-twenties and gave me his copy of “A Book of Trout Flies” by Preston Jennings. He tied a dry version of it also – identical except for upright gray quill sections in place of down wings.