We just finished our first week in Patagonia and I thought I’d post a few images from Argentina. A long and skinny Rainbow from the Buraleo River. Dancingtrout and Tete. Dancingtrout teaching our pilot Tomy to fly fish. Another Buraleo Brown Trout taken with a streamer. Sight fishing to Rainbow Trout on Blanco Creek. Another…
By the time you read this post, I’ll be headed to Patagonia on a fly fishing trip in Argentina and Chile. We took a trip to Argentina last January to fish with SET Fly Fishing at the Estancia Chochoy Mallin Lodge and enjoyed our heli-fly fishing adventure so much, we decided to return again this…
This is my final post for the year and I’d like to share some of my favorite memories from 2023 on RiverKeeper Flies. You might recall I keep track of the flies I tie. This year, the grand total is approaching 1,450 with a couple more days to go until the new year. The total includes…
As I write this post on Monday, Christmas is only one week away. Have you finished all your shopping? If not, check out my 2023 Fly Fisher’s Christmas list for a few last minute ideas. I continue to spend time at the fly tying vise. I finished tying all of our flies for Patagonia which…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Ray Bergman’s Dr Burke. I’ve had this fly on my list to tie for quite some time. I just like the elegance and simplicity of a Bergman wet fly and it forces me to practice mounting duck quill wings whenever I feature one of Bergman’s flies. You can find…
I’ve been spending a lot of hours at the vise lately, filling our Patagonia fly boxes for our trip to Argentina and Chile next month. I finished them last night, a total of 252 flies. I hope you read my Filling My Patagonia Fly Box progress report I wrote two weeks ago. Notice the “his…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Frank Sawyer’s Pheasant Tail Nymph. The original fly was tied with just two materials, pheasant tail fibers and copper wire. Englishman Frank Sawyer was known as a riverkeeper for a six and one half mile section on the River Avon in Wiltshire beginning in 1925. A short time…
I featured a midge pupa in last week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly post, Dorsey’s Black Beauty. It reminded me it’s time to tie on some nymphs if I want to see a trout on the end of my line. Yes, it’s time to fish with my Euro nymph rod. This is my small nymph fly…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Pat Dorsey’s Black Beauty midge. The Black Beauty is a fly Dorsey created back in the early 1990s. He writes it was named after a trip on the Blue River around Silverthorne, CO. A friend of his landed an 8 pound Rainbow measuring 26 inches with an 18…
I’ve been making progress in the last week, working on filling my Patagonia fly box. I thought you might enjoy a few images of the flies. The image above shows our “hers and his” fly boxes…one for Dancingtrout and one for me. They are filled with Fat Albert flies in brown/tan and black, sizes 8…
