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?
It’s hard to believe Christmas is less than 5 weeks away! Face it, we’re into the holiday season. This is the third year I’ve presented a few gift ideas for fly fishers and fly tyers. If you find something on the list you’d like to have, just pass this list onto your significant other so…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Gary LaFontaine’s Floating Flex Crayfish. LaFontaine’s Floating Flex Crayfish is another of the flex-style flies highlighted in LaFontaine’s Legacy (2008), by Gretchen and Al Beatty. It’s difficult to see in the image above, but there are pheasant tail fibers sticking out on both sides to represent the crayfish pincers. Gretchen and…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Silver Admiral steelhead fly. I tied this pin recently for my wife as she left to lead a Casting for Recovery retreat. I thought it appropriate to highlight this Polly Rosborough fly as the first TBT fly in October to bring recognition to breast cancer awareness month….
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Mike Mercer’s Profile Spinner – PMD. I found this fly pattern in Mike Mercer’s Creative Fly Tying (2005) book. He relays a problem he had fishing spinner patterns on California’s Fall River where thousands and thousands of natural PMD Spinners were floating downstream with trout gorging themselves on these insects….
Seasons have definitely changed! I’m back to fly tying. It seems like it was just fall and I was fishing several days per week. We had close to two feet of snow in a couple of days and still have snow on the ground. All that is to say I haven’t been fishing for a while….
This week’s Throw Back Thursday post is a Richard Wheatley Silver Seal Fly Box. This box is filled with 55 steelhead flies donated to Southern Oregon Casting for Recovery several years ago. I don’t know who tied these flies. When I first started fly fishing, I saw a Wheatley fly box and dreamt of the…
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.