This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the White Miller dry fly. This is a fly a customer gave me as a sample to tie for him, a size 12 short-shank hook. I did some quick research on a White Miller dry fly and couldn’t find much at all about the origins of the fly….
I finally got back to the river last week. This year’s November weather was a little different than usual. We were able to fish a good week and a half into November. I’ve said in past years the dry fly fishing usually stops around November 1. It’s like someone throws a switch and the fishing…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Gary LaFontaine’s Floating Flex Crayfish. LaFontaine’s Floating Flex Crayfish is another of the flex-style flies highlighted in LaFontaine’s Legacy (2008), by Gretchen and Al Beatty. It’s difficult to see in the image above, but there are pheasant tail fibers sticking out on both sides to represent the crayfish pincers. Gretchen and…
I just returned from the Post Office where I mailed a couple dozen damsel fly nymphs to a new customer. The image above shows several Wood Duck Damsel nymphs. The one below shows the nymph close-up. The project started with a Comment left on my RiverKeeper Flies website. I responded with an email and after…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Diving Damsel nymph. I learned about the Diving Damsel nymph from a customer who contacted me to tie up a few custom flies. He had saved an article from the March/April 1997 edition of American Angler magazine. The article title was Designs on Damsels by John Shewey….
I hope you were able to check out my 2019 Fly Fisher’s Christmas List I posted last week. I’ve had a couple people recently ask me for book recommendations, so I thought I’d add a few more items to the list. Some are from my favorite Fly Fishing and Fly Tying Books page. The books…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is a Bob Jacklin’s Salmonfly. A friend of mine loaned me this fly and told me Bob actually tied the fly. I was grateful to be able to feature one of Bob’s flies as a TBT. Jacklin is a fixture in West Yellowstone, having arrived in 1967. Bob worked…
This is the fourth year I’ve prepared a wish list for fly fisher’s. If you read prior year’s lists, there are several items remaining, because I really believe these are great gifts! I hope you find something useful on the 2019 Fly Fisher’s Christmas list. Many of these items can be purchased at your local…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Chuck Stranahan’s Brindle Chute. We stopped at Chuck Stranahan’s Flies & Guides during our last trip to Montana. Our reason for being there was to participate in Cast One for Hope, a celebration and major fundraiser of Casting for Recovery. The Brindle Chute was one of the flies Chuck picked…
I’ve written before why early November is a transition for me. Usually, the dry fly fishing on the Metolius River in November seems to switch off. Sure, you’ll have BWOs hatching throughout the winter, but that only lasts 20 – 30 minutes a day. This year is different. We’ve had mild weather the first week…
