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…
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…
