This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Brown Turkey, another fly from the Ray Bergman collection. Since Thursday is Thanksgiving, the Brown Turkey was an obvious choice to highlight as this week’s TBT fly. For some reason, I just like the elegance and simplicity of a Bergman wet fly. You can find the Turkey Brown…
I’ve been sitting at my fly tying vise this week working on flies for our upcoming trip to Patagonia. All the flies are Fat Alberts in a couple of sizes and colors. My mind wanders a lot when tying and I started to think why are attractor fly patterns effective? I featured this fly last…
Here is this week’s images from the water. Fewer days on the water results in fewer images. I’m still enjoying these posts as a means to share my work. I hope you enjoy this week’s portfolio. This October Caddis was walking around on a bush next to me and stopped long enough to capture a…
I’m back to fly tying and thought I’d share some of the flies from the vise. I’ve been spending more time at the fly tying vise, completing orders and getting ready to teach a couple of flies at this week’s Central Oregon Fly Tyer’s Guild on Thursday night. Be sure to check below for links…
Here is this week’s images from the water. Last week I wrote it might have been my last “images” post for a while because of the weather. But I did make it out a couple of days. I hope you enjoy this week’s portfolio. I’ll begin with this PMD. I love the reflection of long…
Welcome to this year’s holiday wish list. It seems like yesterday I was posting for 2022. Where has the year gone? I hope you find something useful on the 2023 Fly Fisher’s Christmas list. Many of these items can be purchased at your local fly shop and I encourage you to do so. But if…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday post is the Dette Hackle Guide. You’ll note there are two color…a black and lighter color guide. These work well regardless of the color hackle the tyer is measuring. You might ask how I arrived at the Dette Hackle Guide as the subject of today’s post. Well, I selected a…
How many flies do you really fish? If you are like me, you’ve got a short list of favorites. Mine is a Sparkle Dun and the IOBO Humpy this year. I met a customer the other day who purchased some of my flies and told me his favorite fly to fish is a Renegade. A…
Here is this week’s images from the water. With the weather changing, it might be the last one for a while. As I write this post on Wednesday morning, I’m looking out at the snow falling. I hope you enjoy this week’s portfolio. These large Rainbows are out there, but not on my line! It…
The last few days I’ve been tying a fly order which include some of my favorite flies. These are the same flies I tied and donated to the recent CfR auction and benefited the Casting for Recovery – Oregon South my wife leads. My customer was one of the bidders for the flies, but lost…
