This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Woolly Bugger. Like many flies, fly tyers are always tweaking tried and true flies to make them fish better. The Woolly Bugger is very similar to the Woolly Worm, but with a different tail of marabou. The picture above includes a bead head as well. The fly…
As they say…”and fun was had by all”. I had a great time last week at the 50th Anniversary of the International Federation of Fly Fishers Fair in Bend, Oregon. So I thought it would be appropriate to say goodbye IFFF. I started the week finishing a few flies (3 dozen in total) RiverKeeper Flies provided to…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is another steelhead fly pattern – the Freight Train. This fly was the creation of Randall Kaufmann. The Freight Train was developed along the Deschutes River where the railroad track follows the river for many miles. Other steelhead fly patterns were developed with the railroad theme…Coal Car, Signal Light, and…
Well, it’s here…the dog days of summer. You may recall I recently wrote a post called The River Wins. I’ve had some up and down days since writing that. But that’s to be expected this time of year. I haven’t given up. So I thought I’d provide a list of August flies I’ll be fishing. The…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Green Butt Skunk. I would venture to guess it is one of the most popular steelhead flies of all time! It was developed by Dan Callaghan, date unknown, but sometime after 1950. He took the original Skunk steelhead fly and added the green butt. Just that minor change…
The IFFF 50th Anniversary will be held in Oregon next week (August 13 – 15) at the Bend Riverhouse Hotel & Convention Center. If you are in the area, please plan to attend. There are two venues for Fly Fishing Fair Activities: The Riverhouse This is where the actual Fair is taking place Thursday, Friday and…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Grizzly King…at least that’s what I think it is. Check out how the leader is attached to the hook…without an eye. This fly is from one of the Vintage Fly Wallets I own. (Be sure to check out my posts Antique Fly Wallets and Antique Fly Wallets Revisited)….
Fishing has changed the last few weeks and I’ve come to the conclusion the river wins! July and August are tough months to fish some rivers. Hatches change. I’m spoiled. I enjoy dry fly fishing. For me, there’s nothing like watching a fly I tied float down the river and seeing a slow rise to my fly…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Chernobyl Ant. It’s an attractor fly pattern and can imitate cicada, crickets, grasshoppers, and stoneflies. Larry Tullis of Orem, Utah relays the fly’s development in Tying Flies with Foam, Fur, and Feathers by Harrison Steeves. Larry tied up a foam body cicada from a beach sandal in the late…
I was fishing East Lake again on Monday. But before we went, I had to restock the “provider box”. So I tied up some Callibaetis Sparkle Dun and Harrops Callibaetis Paraspinner flies along with my latest favorite Callibaetis pattern, the RiverKeeper Callibaetis Emerger. My latest theory about Callibaetis fishing is to not bother fishing with a Callibaetis dun. That’s the…
