Have you ever waited with anticipation for a hatch to begin and see the first few Mayflies or Salmonflies float down the river without a fish eating it? If I were an aquatic insect, I’d choose to be one of the first bugs to hatch. Why do you ask? Because I’d have a greater likelihood…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Olive Bloa. I found the fly pattern in Edmunds and Lee Brook and River Trouting (1916) on page 20. Click on the link for a FREE download. It’s one of my favorite classic books for the history of fly tying and fly fishing the old English flies….
I’m always amazed when I return to our home waters, the Metolius River. I love this river! I fished it for the first time in seven weeks when I ventured out last week. We are fortunate to fish many different waters on our fly fishing road trips and catch some amazing fish. But returning to…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Ed Engle’s Wire-Body Drowned Trico. I found the Wire-Body Drowned Trico in En Engle’s book, Tying Small Flies (2004). I’ve featured flies from Ed’s book for previous TBT flies. I paged through Ed’s book looking for a spinner pattern since I wrote about them yesterday in Tying and…
I create a new post each week and many times I know exactly the subject I plan to write about. Other times, like this week, I need some inspiration. If I go to the river, it often speaks to me, and provides a subject. Today is different. We haven’t fished in two weeks after returning…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Polly’s Little Yellow Stonefly. I found this fly created by Polly Rosborough in John Shewey’s newest book, Favorite Flies for Oregon – 50 Essential Patterns from Local Experts. John sent me his book a few months ago and I thought I might find a good candidate for a…
This week, I’m sharing my fly fishing and fly tying cameras I use for the images you see here on RiverKeeper Flies. It’s an updated list of equipment from a post I wrote back in June 2020 and revised June 2021 entitled Camera Equipment for Fly Fishing and Fly Tying. I’ve made some changes since…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the McCloud Ugly steelhead fly. I’ve heard there might be a steelhead fishing season this year on the Deschutes River and thought I’d highlight an older steelhead fly pattern. The McCloud Ugly was developed by George McCloud of Seattle, WA in the late 1940’s. George also was the…
I hope you were able to follow us on our three week adventure on the Madison River. If not, I’ll provide links to the posts below. During our time in the Madison Valley, we were able to get an introduction to Hebgen Lake gulpers from our friend Dick Rohrbaugh who lives on the river during…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is a Al Troth’s Elk Hair Caddis. I’m continuing a theme from last week about repeating a TBT fly from the past. The Elk Hair Caddis was a fly I removed from a nice Madison River Rainbow Trout the other day for a fellow fly fisher. He had hooked…
