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  • Pritt's Water Cricket | www.johnkreft.com

    Pritt’s Water Cricket

    January 19, 2022October 27, 2024

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday fly is Pritt’s Water Cricket. Here is a fly from T.E. Pritt’s Yorkshire Trout Flies (1885). The link will take you to one of the free download books from an extensive list I have created on my Links to Free Old Fly Fishing and Fly Tying Books page. You can normally…

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  • Green Drake - Head-on | www.johnkreft.com

    Obsessed with Green Drakes

    January 18, 2022March 29, 2026

    If you’ve followed RiverKeeper Flies for a while, it won’t come as a surprise I might be a little obsessed with Green Drakes, from tying effective imitations, fishing the flies during a hatch, and creating images through my photography. In fact, I’ve been thinking about them all week. I taught a Zoom fly tying class…

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  • Stuck-In-The-Shuck Midge | www.johnkreft.com

    Stuck-In-The-Shuck Midge TBT

    January 12, 2022March 21, 2026

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Stuck-In-The-Shuck Midge TBT. I was on my favorite river yesterday looking for rising fish. I didn’t see very many, which wasn’t surprising to me. After all, it’s winter and I didn’t expect summertime hatches. I was hoping for a Blue Wing Olive hatch of 30 minutes or…

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  • Fly Diversity | www.johnkreft.com

    Tying Flies for Customer Orders

    January 11, 2022March 29, 2026

    I’m back at the vise this week, tying flies for customer orders. I ended up with a customer wait list because my tying slowed down during the summer and fall months as we enjoyed our fly fishing road trips. I should be current by the end of the week. Before I get too far on…

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  • Double Bunny | www.johnkreft.com

    Sanchez’s Double Bunny

    January 5, 2022January 5, 2022

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Scott Sanchez’s Double Bunny streamer. Sanchez states he first thought about this fly in 1988 on a trip to Belize. His inspiration for the fly were two other flies they were using, a Kiwi Muddler and a FisHair Cuda Fly. He wondered what might happen “if I put…

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  • Sparkle Dun Wing Alternatives | www.johnkreft.com

    Effective Fly Tying Substitutes for Deer Hair Wings

    January 4, 2022March 22, 2023

    I received a Comment from one of my readers asking if I could provide information about using effective material substitutes for natural materials when tying flies. It was a general question and something I’ve been thinking about lately. Instead of developing an all-encompassing post, I thought I’d provide information on effective fly tying substitutes for…

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  • Light Hendrickson Flies | www.johnkreft.com

    Favorite Throw Back Thursday Flies for 2021 on RiverKeeper Flies

    December 29, 2021December 28, 2021

    It’s the last Thursday of the year and I thought it was appropriate to share a few of my favorite Throw Back Thursday Flies for 2021 on RiverKeeper Flies. I hope you liked them as much as I did! In case you missed the flies and their stories, just click on the fly’s name to…

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  • Flat Tire on Grey's River | www.johnkreft.com

    Favorite Memories from 2021 on RiverKeeper Flies

    December 28, 2021March 28, 2026

    I can’t believe another year has passed already! As I reminisce, here are some accomplishments and favorite memories from 2021 on RiverKeeper Flies. You might recall I keep track of the flies I tie. This year, the grand total is approaching 2,200 with a couple more days to go until the new year. The total…

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  • Electric Caddis Flies | www.johnkreft.com

    Electric Caddis TBT

    December 22, 2021December 22, 2021

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Electric Caddis TBT. I pulled out Greg Thomas’ book Best Flies for Idaho (2000) from my bookshelf and thumbed through it and found the Electric Caddis who attributed the fly to Mike Lawson. It got me to thinking…I wonder if the fly is listed in Lawson’s Spring…

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  • Christmas Greetings | www.johnkreft.com

    Newest RiverKeeper Flies Video

    December 21, 2021March 28, 2026

    I hope you saw last week’s post Early Winter Euro Nymph Fly Fishing where I highlighted several of my favorite Euro nymph fly patterns. I shared the Olive Perdigon YouTube video and just posted my newest RiverKeeper Flies video of the Rainbow Warrior Perdigon nymph on my YouTube channel. Click on the fly image to…

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