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….

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….

This week’s post is about fly fishing the Big Hole River in Montana. It was the next stop on our fly fishing road trip.

This week’s Throw Back Thursday post is about Craig Matthew’s Fly Tying Chair.