I can’t believe it’s almost October! I haven’t been to the river in a while because of all the smoke and closures, but would expect to see October Caddis flitting around the water and laying eggs. Fishing October Caddis flies can be exciting this time of year. Here is a post from last year I…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Deschutes Demon TBT. The Deschutes Demon was created by Don McClain of Don’s Tackle in Portland, OR in the 1960s. It’s one of the flies listed in John Shewey’s book Classic Steelhead Flies (2015) where he mentions Don’s wife Lola who developed another popular steelhead fly, the…
I like to keep track of the flies that have been successful on our fly fishing road trips. Saving the information in a post on my RiverKeeper Flies website is an effective way to document the flies, both for me AND for you. I try to check out prior year posts about our road trip…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is McNeese’s Golden Heron. This Golden Heron spey fly was tied by Dave McNeese, an icon in the steelhead fly tying world. It was part of a fly collection from my friend Jim Fisher.
I hope you read last week’s post about fishing our home waters the Metolius River. We continued to fish the river last week, but forest fires in the area have changed our plans this week. In fact, the road below Allingham Bridge is closed, including all the campgrounds. They were evacuated this weekend. The high…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Grey Ugly. Recently, a potential customer contacted me to see if I would tie some Grey Ugly flies for him. I had never heard of this fly and did a quick Google search to learn about it. Looking at an image of the fly, I thought it…
We are back fishing our home waters the Metolius River. I’m amazed at the diversity of bugs we see on the river. For the last few weeks, we seemed to concentrate fishing one bug, but on the Metolius, the variety is amazing. And it can be different only 50 yards away. Olive mayflies in one…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Gordon Fancy Atlantic Salmon fly. This is one of five Atlantic Salmon flies my friend Jim Fisher purchased during his 1986 fishing trip on the river Spey in Strathspey, Scotland and the last TBT post of these Atlantic Salmon flies. You might have seen the other flies…
The last stop on this year’s fly fishing road trip was our return to NF Clearwater and Kelly Creek. It was also the first stop as we started our trip east to Montana in late June. Hard to believe six weeks had passed when we arrived on August 10. We arrived in the afternoon and…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the California Mosquito TBT. A couple of weeks ago I posted a Mosquito as a Throw Back Thursday Fly. At the time, I had this thought in the back of my head about learning about the Mosquito in one of Randall Kaufmann’s books I purchased in the early…
