We returned to Montana for some Madison River June and July fly fishing after spending 9 days on the Henry’s Fork. Our arrival was on June 27th and have been fishing the wade section at $3 Bridge and Lyons Bridge for the last 10 days. In my post Fly Fishing the Madison River in June…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is a Bob Jacklin Split Wing PMD Parachute. I found this fly when I walked into his fly shop a couple of 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…
We’re back on the Madison River after finishing 9 days fly fishing the Henry’s Fork. I hope you read last week’s post about Fly Fishing the Henry’s Fork Brown and Green Drake Hatches. To say we had a great time is an understatement! As I mentioned in last week’s post, we haven’t fished the Henry’s…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is a Bob Jacklin Gray Drake. I found this fly when I walked into his fly shop last week. I stood in front of the fly bins and selected several I thought would make likely candidates for my TBT posts. I think I’m on a drake kick, since last…
We left the Madison River last Thursday because of poor hatches and headed to Last Chance, ID because of a report of Green Drakes hatching on the Henry’s Fork of the Snake River. This week’s post will be about our first impressions fly fishing the Henry’s Fork Brown and Green Drake hatches. It is shorter…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is a Bob Jacklin Western Green Drake. I found this fly when I walked into his fly shop last week. I stood in front of the fly bins and selected several I thought would make likely candidates for my TBT posts. Bob’s fly is a Comparadun style fly with…
This week’s post is about fly fishing the Madison River in June 2021.
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Dave’s Hopper fly pattern. This is another fly pattern I haven’t tied in years. A customer recently asked me to tie the fly and I thought it was a great candidate for a TBT post. So here it is. Dave’s Hopper was designed by Dave Whitlock in the…
I’m surprised at the variety of flies I tie. I tie a lot of flies for my customers and receive feedback from some of them. I always enjoy reading their notes to me and it’s always rewarding to see the fruits of my labor. I pleased to see my flies work! Not the normal trout…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is a Quigley Gray Drake Cripple. I didn’t find a fly pattern sheet for a Quigley Gray Drake Cripple. This was tied for a customer and I pulled a few materials out I thought looked good for the fly. For instance, the body is a goose quill wrapped with…
