• Eddy fishing

    Foam is home. Have you ever heard that phrase? The longer version (my version) is…foam is where fish feel safe and food is readily available. When I fish new rivers, I am always on the lookout for what I hope is some good eddy fishing. Why? That’s where I usually find very nice fish. You…

  • Purple Spectral Parachute

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Purple Spectral Parachute. We stopped at Chuck Stranahan’s Flies & Guides on a recent fly fishing road trip to see what we could find. The Purple Spectral Parachute is one of his hallmark flies. Chuck talked a lot about UV and how trout see colors we don’t. He believes…

  • Light Caddis Variant

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Light Caddis Variant. This is a fly I found while I was in Hamilton, MT to participate in the Cast One for Hope fundraiser. We stopped at Chuck Stranahan’s Flies & Guides to see what we could find. While waiting to talk with him, I checked out…

  • 2019 Cast One for Hope

    Last weekend, my wife and I were at the Flying Horse estate in Hamilton, MT to participate in the 2019 Cast One for Hope, a celebration and major fundraiser for the National Casting for Recovery program. Cast One is limited to 34 anglers fishing out of 17 drift boats. Guides from the Bitterroot Valley volunteered…

  • Perk’s Perilizer

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Perk’s Perilizer. It’s a steelhead fly and used at that. OK, I admit it’s a tough fly to really see. It’s really about the story… We attended the Pendleton Round-Up a couple of weeks ago, just like we do most years. My fishing partner has been looking for…

  • October Caddis Time

    October Caddis time begins in September and October. In fact, I’ve seen several flitting around lately and thought it might be a good time to provide an update to the blog post I wrote in previous years. You’ll see these size 10 – 8 bugs around the vegetation and over water. They are a large,…

  • Lawson’s Caddis Emerger

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Mike Lawson’s Caddis Emerger. This is another one of Mike Lawson’s flies I picked up at Henry’s Fork Anglers on a recent fly fishing road trip. I asked the guys working behind the counter if they could point out a few flies Mike developed. I purchased several of…

  • Lawson’s Spent Partridge Caddis

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Mike Lawson’s Spent Partridge Caddis. I purchased this Lawson’s Spent Partridge Caddis recently at Henry’s Fork Anglers in Last Chance, ID along the banks of the Henry’s Fork of the Snake River. It’s one of a handful of flies I plan to highlight in future Throw Back Thursday…