By the time you read this post, we have arrived at home from our 2020 fly fishing road trip. After fishing Yellowstone National Park and the Madison River a second time, we discussed different routes to travel home. Should we drive back through Idaho and Eastern Oregon or retrace our previous fishing spots. We chose…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Blue Charm 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. You might have seen the other flies in previous TBT posts: He was successful landing a 32…
One thing about being spontaneous is you never know where you will be fly fishing next in SW Montana. How about Rock Creek? We left the Madison River with a tentative plan of places to fish as we slowly headed home. Fly fishing Rock Creek, MT in 2020 wasn’t on that list. We were on…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Mosquito. More of a top view showing split, upright wings. This is another fly from a box of old flies I borrowed from my friend Jim Fisher. He learned to fly fish in Northern Idaho. This fly is probably from the 1950’s or 60’s. I’m still on…
Our fly fishing road trip continues as we return to the Madison River. I think we were experiencing a phrase we’ve heard multiple times …”you’re between hatches”. Fishing was different when we returned to the Madison River after fishing four days in Yellowstone National Park. I don’t know why. Perhaps the larger fish moved out…
This week’s Throwback Thursday post is the Ross Reel No. 2. I bought this reel from a friend a few years ago. It was attached to a Winston – Tom Morgan Favorite 8 foot 4 weight fly rod. I don’t fish it often, but did pull it out when I recently fished Soda Butte Creek…
After a week fly fishing the Madison River, we looked forward to fly fishing Yellowstone National Park. Our plan was to fish the Yellowstone River and the waters of the Lamar Valley in the northeast corner – Soda Butte Creek, Lamar River, and Slough Creek. Yellowstone River We drove into the park with a plan…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is a Northern Idaho Trude. This is another fly from a box of old flies I borrowed from my friend Jim Fisher. He learned to fly fish in Northern Idaho. This fly is probably from the 1950’s or 60’s. The Trude fly was developed by Carter Harrison in either…
Fly fishing the Madison River in 2020 was the next stop on this year’s fly fishing road trip. The Madison River valley is a magical place for us, one we always enjoy returning to. We spent a week on the river and will return to fish it again after a few days in Yellowstone National…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is a Northern Idaho Bee. This fly is one from a box of old flies I borrowed from my friend Jim Fisher. He learned to fly fish in Northern Idaho. This fly is probably from the 1950’s or 60’s. Here is a sampling of a few other posts I…
