Van at Ennis Lake | www.johnkreft.com

Fall Fly Fishing Road Trip

I have a question for you. Where would you go fly fishing if you had a couple of weeks and a campervan? That’s the question we asked ourselves last week as we prepared to travel…

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Grasshoppers Mating on Metolius River | www.johnkreft.com

Images from the Water

Here are this week’s images from the water. These are all from the Metolius in the last couple of weeks. The image of these mating grasshoppers was created with a technique called “focus stacking”. I…

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PMD Fly Box | www.johnkreft.com

Replace Rejected Flies in Your Fly Box

A couple of weeks ago, I published a post entitled Flies for September. I checked my fly boxes and didn’t see too many open slots. But when I was at the river and pulled out…

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Metolius Drunella flavilinea | www.johnkreft.com

Images from the Water

Here are this week’s images from the water. I’ll begin with this Drunella flavilinea found on the river this week. And a close-up… We’re still in what I consider the transitional time because not a lot…

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Metolius Brown | www.johnkreft.com

Odds and Ends

In this week’s post, I would like to share a few odds and ends. My energy has returned after being down and out due to Covid and I finally made it to the river last…

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Loop Wing Dry Fly - Closeup | www.johnkreft.com

André Puyans Loop Wing Dry Fly

This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is an Andre Puyans Loop Wing Dry Fly. Jeff Smith, a friend of mine from the Salem, OR area tied this fly several years ago. Six of these flies…

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Provider Boxes | www.johnkreft.com

Flies for September

I’m looking at the calendar and note the first day of September is only a couple of days away. Usually, by this time of year I would have pulled out my fly boxes to see…

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Buzz Hackle | www.johnkreft.com

Myrtle Powell’s Buzz Hackle

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….

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