I thought it was time for another Odds and Ends post. It feels good to be out on the river again. Yes, the Metolius has been somewhat fickle, some insects and a few fish rising to them. But no two days are the same, and the next day will find us sitting and watching the…
Every few years, we discover a fish on the Metolius that has made its home close to shore, allowing us to watch it throughout the season. We aren’t the only ones who notice. Other fly fishers will comment about seeing the fish. In fact, recently, an angler walked by and said he had been fishing…
I just finished a customer fly order where I tied a few size 18 RiverKeeper Soft Hackle Cripples for small BWOs and PMDs. I tied them on some TMC 102y hooks I have in my inventory. So I thought while the materials were still on my fly tying table, I’d tie these as small as…
We’re slowly getting back to the river and I thought about refreshing my fly boxes. As you might recall, we had to cut our annual fly fishing road trip short because Dancingtrout ended up suffering two strokes while we were camping just outside of Ennis, MT. I wrote about it in My Ongoing Tribute to…
It’s been a while, but I’m back at the vise after receiving a customer order for a few Mayfly dry flies. His order was almost exclusively size 18 Mayflies. I thought you might enjoy seeing some of them. The flies above are size 18 Stalcup CDC Biot Comparadun BWO. I must say they are not…
Before you get the wrong idea, I’ll start by saying both of us are fine now. My wife Karen (Dancingtrout) and I are private people so today’s post isn’t something I thought I’d be writing. The short answer is we are back home and haven’t fished since June 26. We had to cancel our fly…
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…
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 year’s Green Drake hatch on the Metolius has really been hit or miss for us. Seems like it’s been like that for the last couple of years. That doesn’t mean we haven’t seen Drakes. We have, just not the numbers I recall. Chasing the Green Drake Mayfly hatch is one of my favorite of…
Wow, where does the time go? It’s been a couple of weeks since we were fly fishing the Lower Deschutes River from Warms Springs to Trout Creek. I thought this post would have been completed already, but I must have lost track of time. On to my report. We last fished the lower Deschutes in…
