This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is The Loyal Sock, another fly from Ray Bergman’s book Trout.
For more information about Ray Bergman’s Trout, check out a previous Throw Back Thursday Fly, the Bostwick.
You’ll find the Loyal Sock in Plate 5, page 84.
The Loyal Sock
Body:
Pale Yellow Floss
Hackle:
Black
Wing:
Black
This fly was tied on an older Mustad 3906 hook, size 10.
Enjoy…go fish!
I’ve spent time at the vise lately and finished an order of 96 dry flies for a customer and thought I’d share a few images of the flies. The first two are Klinkhamer and Quigley style flies. I enjoy tying these flies with turkey biot furled bodies. Both of these flies are size 20, a…
Have you ever waited with anticipation for a hatch to begin and see the first few Mayflies or Salmonflies float down the river without a fish eating it? If I were an aquatic insect, I’d choose to be one of the first bugs to hatch. Why do you ask? Because I’d have a greater likelihood…
Christmas in July? Yup. My wife and I just finished a couple of days on the Upper Columbia River fly fishing at Black Bear Lodge which is located about 10 miles from the US/Canadian border. We had heard about catching BIG rainbow trout on the Upper Columbia River using dry flies…and the fishing gods were…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Rainbow Warrior, a fly developed by Lance Egan. The Rainbow Warrior is a relatively new “old” fly. I enjoy highlighting a variety of flies and this is fly catches fish. Lance Egan has been a member of Fly Fishing Team USA since 2003 at the World Fly Fishing Championships. He…
I’m surprised at the variety of flies I tie. I tie a lot of flies for my customers and receive feedback from some of them. I always enjoy reading their notes to me and it’s always rewarding to see the fruits of my labor. I pleased to see my flies work! Not the normal trout…
The last stop on this year’s fly fishing road trip was our return to NF Clearwater and Kelly Creek. It was also the first stop as we started our trip east to Montana in late June. Hard to believe six weeks had passed when we arrived on August 10. We arrived in the afternoon and…
