This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Stalcup’s Stillborn Emerger TBT. Here is another example of Shane Stalcup’s creative mind. He tied this fly backwards, starting at the eye and working towards the bend of the hook. The fly is designed to ride flat on the surface. In all honesty, it felt very odd tying…
I recently had a question from a customer asking for ideas of how to fish the nymphs they were purchasing from me. I’ve written about the variety of ways I tie on two nymphs to my leader, but I thought it might be a good time to refresh your memories. So, today’s post provides several…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Stalcup’s Emergent Cripple Dun. I decided it was time to feature another Shane Stalcup fly. I first learned of Stalcup’s flies in his book Mayflies “Top to Bottom” (2002). I thought it was interesting looking at the materials he used to create close imitations to the real insects. It was…
Last week I talked about filling three orders for customer Christmas presents in My Favorite Dry Flies of 2020 post. I finished the orders yesterday, a total of 191 flies. What I really enjoyed about this project was the diversity of flies I tie…river flies, lake flies, and steelhead flies. The image below are the…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Ray Bergman’s Hawthorne. Bergman’s Hawthorne is a wet fly listed in his book entitled Trout (1940 – fourth printing) on page 64, Plate No. 4. As I’ve mentioned many times, I enjoy highlighting a Bergman wet fly because it forces me to sit down and tie these elegant flies. Bergman’s…
I’ve settled into the chair at my fly tying table, working to fill three orders for Christmas presents. These orders are for a combined total of 191 flies and I hope to complete them in the next week or so. I was asked to recommend some flies, which I was happy to do. It got…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly post are two flies from the Astorga Manuscript. These two flies were tied by a friend who loaned the book to me. The El Manuscrito de Astorga by Juan de Bergara, a cleric from the city of Astorga, recorded some of the Leónese fishing system in a manuscript written…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly post are two flies from the Astorga Manuscript. These two flies were tied by a friend who loaned the book to me. The El Manuscrito de Astorga by Juan de Bergara, a cleric from the city of Astorga, recorded some of the Leónese fishing system in a manuscript written…
I received an email from a friend recently asking for help understanding dry fly hook comparisons. Then someone left a Comment on my RiverKeeper Flies website about a compatible hook for the Tiemco 102Y. In fact, I read a similar question in an online forum about a Tiemco 102Y hook. I thought it was a…
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly are some Cate’s Turkey flies. I tied these many years ago. I found this fly pattern in Randall Kaufmann’s American Nymph Fly Tying Manual (1975). It was one of my first fly tying books. There were 8 colored pages out of the 90 plus pages showing…
