I’m not a videographer, but I took some footage of our experience fly fishing the Brown Drake hatch I’d like to share with you. It’s my first attempt at creating this type of content and not something I plan to do a lot of. I like to learn new things and creating my Magical Brown…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Wayne “Buz” Buszek Kings River Caddis. Here are a couple other images of flies tied by Buz my friend Wayne Luallen sent me. I never met Buz, but I wish I had. He must have been a great tyer. In 1970, the International Federation of Fly Fishers…
I’m asked quite often what flies I use and recommend. After 40+ days on our last fly fishing road trip, I thought I’d provide a list of my nine favorite dry flies which were successful for us in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. This is a subject I seem to write about quite often after returning…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Ugly Rudamus. The Ugly Rudamus was developed in 1984 by John Foust of Hamilton, MT as an imitation for caddis and stoneflies. Born in Stevensville and raised in Darby in the 1960s, Foust began tying flies at the age of 13 and sold them at Bob Ward’s…
Our last week fly fishing Yellowstone Country, we fished a couple of days on the Yellowstone River in the Park, Hebgen Lake, and the Madison River. We left southwest Wyoming looking for dry fly action on the Yellowstone River in Yellowstone National Park. We arrived on July 19, four days after the opener on July…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Chuck Stranahan’s Black Ant. I returned to Chuck Stranahan’s Flies & Guides a couple of weeks ago. I was fortunate he wasn’t too busy and I caught him behind the vise. We caught up a bit and he talked more about his original Stranahan’s Brindle Chute I presented back in November 2019….
Fly fishing southwest Wyoming was the next stop on our 2021 fly fishing road trip. How did we get there? Well, we left the Madison River in Montana trying to find clear skies after fishing next to a forest fire at $3 Bridge. Our travels took us past the Henry’s Fork of the Snake where…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Chuck Stranahan’s Olive Brindle Chute. I returned to Chuck Stranahan’s Flies & Guides last week. The Brindle Chute style of fly is one of Chuck’s “hallmark” flies. The full name of the Brindle Chute is Brindle Hackle Multi Colored Body Parachute. This is his olive version, which is labeled as…
I know many of my readers live in the Western United States. Between the warm water temperatures and smoke, you may have changed your fly fishing plans this summer. Last week, we made a few adjustments as well as we dealt with smokey Montana fly fishing. Here is a sunset we normally see at $3…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is a Bob Jacklin Giant Salmon Fly Nymph. I found this fly when I walked into his fly shop a few weeks ago. I stood in front of the fly bins and selected several I thought would make likely candidates for my TBT posts. Jacklin is a fixture in…
