This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Purple Haze TBT. A customer asked me to tie up a dozen Purple Haze flies for him and I needed a fly for this week’s TBT post. I thought it was perfect timing! This is my variation of the original. A quick Google search provided some information…
The next stop on our fly fishing road trip is fishing the Boulder and Stillwater rivers. On one of our stops, someone recommended very highly we give the Boulder River a try. We told him we were headed east to the Stillwater River, but he was adamant we should make the effort and fish the…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday post is about dye materials at Blue Ribbon Flies. My wife and I stopped at Blue Ribbon Flies back in July during our first trip this year to the Madison River. I almost always stop in at Blue Ribbon Flies to pick up a couple items. This year, it was…
We’re at the end of our second trip fly fishing the Madison River this year. I’ve always said that no two days on the river are the same. That saying also is applicable to the fishing we’ve experienced this week on the Madison. Last year, we had spectacular fishing with ants on the Madison in…
My subscribers are expecting a Throw Back Thursday post today, but I decided to provide a “bonus” post instead. We’re on another fly fishing road trip and headed to Montana. My last post stated the next spot we planned to fish was the Madison River. But…I always am open to a “plan B”. Well, fly…
If you’ve been reading RiverKeeper Flies for a while, you might recognize a few of these fly patterns. I’m headed out on another fly fishing road trip and was preparing my August Montana fly box and thought you might be interested in the dry flies I plan to carry. One of the things I do, and…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Denny’s A.P. Emerger TBT. I first learned about the fly from Denny’s book entitled Fly-Fishing Stillwaters for Trophy Trout (1997). My wife and I took his stillwater clinic at Alder Creek Ranch in Sisters many years ago. We didn’t know much about fishing lakes and we really enjoyed the clinic…
I’ve been reviewing some of my previous blog posts and found one entitled Lessons Learned from our Fly Fishing Road Trip (from 2017). Since we recently returned from our last trip, I thought it was timely to update the list and provide a little more information from our most recent trip to Idaho and Montana….
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Ray Bergman Irish Turkey. I haven’t posted a Ray Bergman wet fly in awhile. I returned from our fly fishing road trip to Montana last week and needed to get back to fly tying, so I thought a quick wet fly would be nice to tie. The…
The last stop on our early fly fishing road trip was fly fishing the Madison River, MT. To say we had a terrific time fly fishing the Madison River is an understatement. Today’s post might be a little longer than normal from all the images. Between the scenery and fish caught, I couldn’t help myself….
