This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Flybody Dun – Red Quill. This fly is part of a set of five dry flies by the H.L. Leonard Rod Company that came in a clear 4 inch rectangular tube and the last of my TBT posts for these flies. I’ve highlighted other flies, including the…
If you read my post last week, Hoping for Hatching Callibaetis Mayflies, I thought I’d provide an update on our early season East Lake fishing experience. And be sure to check out a Non-Twist Knot I’ve started to experiment with for some of the bigger flies I fish. You’ll find it at the end of…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Flybody Dun – March Brown. This fly is part of a set of five dry flies by the H.L. Leonard Rod Company that came in a clear 4 inch rectangular tube and is the second TBT fly highlighted. Here’s what I wrote last week about these flies……
By the time you read today’s post, I’ll be fishing at East Lake. It will be the first lake I’ve fished this year and I’m hoping for hatching Callibaetis mayflies and rising fish. In preparation of my trip, I decided to review my own information about Callibaetis mayflies to make sure I have the flies…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Flybody Dun – Quill Gordon. This fly is part of a set of five dry flies by the H.L. Leonard Rod Company that came in a clear 4 inch rectangular tube. A good friend of mine is into my Throw Back Thursday posts and evidently has an…
Today’s post is about my new Devil’s Canyon Korker wading boots. I finally replaced my original Korker Devil’s Canyon wading boots I purchased in July 2015. I’ve fished at least 100 days per year, so adding up the total fishing days for 2015 – 2018, I’m guessing my old boots saw roughly 350 days on…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday post is about my Thompson Model A Vise. This was my very first vise. I purchased it from Wayne Doughton of Doughton’s Hardware in Salem, OR. I’m pretty sure it was 1970. This vise served me well for about 20 years before I replaced it with a McKenzie vise and…
I was on the river recently and was pleased to see a terrific PMD hatch. Yes, it’s that time of year when Pale Morning Duns hatch in droves and the fish are eager to eat them off the surface. I looked back at previous posts and sure enough, I’ve written about these flies in late…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Dark Snipe or Snipe and Purple. The Snipe and Purple is another old soft hackle fly pattern listed in The North Country Fly – Yorkshire’s Soft Hackle Tradition (2015) by Robert L. Smith. Many of these older soft hackle fly patterns come from the Yorkshire Dales in northern England….
I’ve heard it’s time. The first few big bugs are just beginning to hatch. Salmonfly season is here! These are the biggest bugs of the season (I tie flies as large as size 4 to imitate them) and this hatch is much anticipated by many fly fishers. The image above is of an adult breaking…
