TBT again! Here is one of my classic Adams flies I tied many years ago. My tribute to Len Halladay who originated the fly in the summer of 1922.
In some of my research, I came across this Youtube video of the story of Len Halladay. Hope you enjoy it!
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Jacklin Woolly Worm. The Jacklin Woolly Worm pictured above is another fly tied by Bob Jacklin and loaned to me by a good friend. He told me Bob has used this fly with success on the Madison River between Hebgen and Quake Lakes in Montana. Jacklin is…
I just finished tying a custom fly order and decided the next flies from the vise would be a few Mahogany Duns with different wing variations. Now is the time of year when you might find Mahogany Duns hatching and floating down your favorite river. It hasn’t been a hatch I’ve fished much, but others…
Finally the weather has changed and it’s actually November, not October 42, 43, or 44th. October weather continued into early November and I decided it was still October; hence the reasoning for changing my October calendar to include dates of 42, 43, and 44. There was even a smattering of snow last Saturday when I…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is LaFontaine’s EZ2C Caddis. LaFontaine’s EZ2C Caddis can be found in LaFontaine’s Legacy, a book authored by Al jand Gretchen Beatty about 26 fly patterns Gary LaFontaine never finished publishing. The fly can be tied in sizes 8 – 20. This is the third fly from LaFontaine’s Legacy. Other flies I’ve published…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Ida May, a fly developed by Charles Brooks. The Ida May is listed as a general nymph fly pattern. I probably purchased his book Nymph Fishing for Larger Trout in the 1980’s. It was early in my fly fishing and fly tying journey. I’ve always been interested…
Oh what a difference a couple of weeks make! We made our return to East Lake on Sunday with high hopes because of the terrific fishing we experienced a couple weeks ago. You can read about it in my Early Season Fly Fishing on East Lake post. While we did catch a few nice fish,…
