It won’t be long before we head East to Montana on this year’s fly fishing road trip. We fish in beautiful places during our road trips, but the last couple of weeks, I’m reminded why I live in Sisters. It turns out we have good dry fly fishing on my local waters, the Metolius River….
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Polly’s Muskrat Nymph. A couple of weeks ago, I presented Polly’s Fledermouse Nymph and thought since I had used muskrat, I’d highlight another nymph utilizing the same material. It’s a simple fly to tie with the most difficult aspect is locating the natural materials of muskrat and beaver. This…
Last week found us floating the Deschutes River from Warm Springs to Trout Creek, a very popular drift section. Perhaps you read my post, Water is Life on the Deschutes River a few weeks ago where we fished with Littleleaf Outfitters on the Warm Springs Reservation. Our hope was to fish Salmonfly and Golden Stone…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Buz’s Old Gray Mare. This is another Buz Buszek fly pattern. If you are a regular here at RiverKeeper Flies, you’ve seen several TBT flies I’ve highlighted on these pages and you might be familiar with his story. If not, read on… Buz Buszek (1912 – 1965) opened…
I’ve had time to think along the river lately while waiting for insects to hatch and fish to rise. I thought I’d share 5 tips to improve your fly fishing success and I’ll offer a few products I use frequently while fishing. Today’s post isn’t only for my readers. I need to heed my own…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Polly Rosborough’s Fledermouse Nymph. I recently had a customer request several of these flies and thought it would be a good candidate for a TBT post. Here is a close-up of the nymph. Ernest H. “Polly” Rosborough (1902 – 1997) lived in Chiloquin, Oregon and his home river…
This week’s post includes some images from the river. While we’ve picked up a few fish here and there, the colder temperatures seem to have impacted the hatches and fish eating habits. So I seem to be paying much more attention to my surroundings when I don’t see any rising fish. On the other hand,…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is a Norm Wood Special encore. If you read this week’s post, Water is Life on the Deschutes River, you’ll recall we used the Norm Wood Special as one of our successful flies. Here is what I wrote about the Norm Wood Special back in 2020. Norm Wood was…
Last week found us fly fishing the Salmonfly and Golden Stone hatch with Littleleaf Guide Service. Spending the day with Alysia Littleleaf, we learned how water is life on the Deschutes River. We met Elke & Alysia Littleleaf at Indian Head Casino on the Warm Springs Reservation just a stone’s throw from the Deschutes River….
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the McGinty fly. The McGinty is one of the images Wayne Luallen sent me of flies from Buz Buszek’s fly box. Some of the flies in his box were tied by Buz, while others were probably selected from bins in from his fly shop. It’s just a little…
