This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Buzz Hackle. I haven’t been anywhere near water with my Nikon camera for over 3 weeks because of Covid, so I thought I’d present a TBT fly. In yesterday’s post, I shared a couple of flies I tied for customers. This is my last order, a fly…
I ventured back to the vise last week to complete a few fly orders. I’m still recovering from Covid. It’s been 3 weeks now and I feel like I finally turned the corner. But it’s a slow process. The first flies off the vise were an Elk Hair Caddis Variant for a customer in size…
Here are this week’s images from the water. These images are from Hebgen Lake as we travelled to Yellowstone National Park to fish the Yellowstone River. We hoped to find a few Callibaetis mayflies, and found these insects along the water’s edge. These are Trico mayfly spinners. The colorful translucence from their wings are impressive….
It’s August and the middle of hopper season and I thought I’d share my terrestrial fly box. While walking to the van today to get some flies, I saw this hopper on the driveway. I think it was a sign from the fish gods! For me, August is a month where I experience a lull…
Here are this week’s images from the water. After fly fishing the Yellowstone River, we travelled through the northwest corner of Yellowstone National Park, through Cooke City and Beartooth Pass to Red Lodge, MT. Sunrise on Beartooth Pass at 10,933 feet. Bison along the lower Lamar River in Yellowstone National Park. Sunrise – Beartooth Pass…
After our time fly fishing the Yellowstone River, we headed to the NW corner of Yellowstone National Park to view for ourselves the impacts from last year’s 500 year flood. Our hope was to fish the Lamar River and Soda Butte Creek and continue over the Beartooth Pass for a quick stop fly fishing the…
Here are this week’s images from the water. We were in Yellowstone National Park and inspiration for this week’s portfolio. Sunrise at Lower Falls on the Yellowstone River. Measuring a Yellowstone Cutthroat on the Yellowstone River. Salmonfly on vegetation along Yellowstone River. Several hundred empty Stonefly shucks along the high water mark on the Yellowstone…
The next stop on this year’s road trip is fly fishing the Yellowstone River in July 2023. We left the Madison River Valley after spending two weeks fishing for and catching beautiful Brown and Rainbow Trout. I’ll provide links to both posts at the bottom in case you missed them. I went back to my…
Here are this week’s images from the water. This is our second week fly fishing the Madison River and inspiration for this week’s portfolio. Midge closeup. The last trout of the Madison River. Casting in a caddis swarm. Purple flower on the Madison River. A Brown Trout ready to release. A Rainbow Trout ready to…
We just completed our second week fly fishing the Madison River in July 2023. I hope you were able to see my post about our first week. If not, you can find it HERE. We had a terrific time, but all good things must come to an end. The next stop on this year’s fly…
