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The 2nd Annual Cast One – Home Waters Annual Online Auction is live from September 27 thru October 5. Proceeds from the auction benefit Casting for Recovery (CfR). There are several items directly benefiting the…

Here are images from Leslie Gulch and the Owyhee Basin, the first stop on our fall fly fishing road trip. The image above is the road to Leslie Gulch, named for Hiram Leslie Silver City…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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….