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…
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…
Our last road trip for the year found us fly fishing the Kootenai, Bitterroot and Clark Fork Rivers. If you are a regular here on RiverKeeper Flies, you know this is the third fly fishing road trip this year to Idaho and Montana. Here is a link to my post where I captured all the…
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…
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…
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 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,…
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…
This week’s post lists the top 10 dry flies for Montana in August. We used these flies during our most recent fly fishing road trip. They worked well for us on the numerous rivers we fished in Montana and the North Fork Shoshone River in Wyoming and I wanted to share them with you. This…
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…
