This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Mayfly Cripple. The Mayfly Cripple is another fly pattern from Blue Ribbon Flies in West Yellowstone, MT. I found this fly pattern in Fly Patterns of Yellowstone – Volume 2 (2008) by Craig Mathews and John Juracek several years ago. Rowen Nyman created the Mayfly Cripple in the spring…
If you’ve been reading the posts from this year’s fly fishing road trip, you might have noticed how many of the fish we caught took ant patterns. In this week’s post, I thought I would highlight my favorite ant fly patterns. I’m always amazed how well ant fly patterns work. I’ve experienced how almost any…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Ray Bergman Black Angel. The Black Angel is a Ray Bergman dry fly listed in his book entitled Trout (1940 – fourth printing) on page 332, Plate No. 13. Bergman was well known for his wet flies, but his book also lists dry flies, streamers, nymphs, steel head and…
We have fished some terrific places on our most recent fly fishing road trip. These have included the Owyhee River, South for of the Snake River, Teton River, Ennis Lake, and the Madison River and Quake Lake. The last stops on our trip were fly fishing the Clark Fork and Kootenai Rivers. After we left…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Improved Chaos Hopper TBT. It’s no coincidence I chose the Improved Chaos Hopper for this week’s post. I saw a picture earlier this week of a beautiful Brown Trout posted by Blue Ribbon Flies in West Yellowstone. The fish ate a hopper fly pattern! I originally found…
We had a wonderful week fly fishing the Madison River Valley recently. The Madison River was one of the stops on another fly fishing road trip. There are too many choices of where to fish when visiting the Madison Valley and we had a difficult time deciding where to fish. Besides fly fishing the Madison River,…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Rogan’s Fancy. I found this fly on the wall in the cabin we stayed in on the Madison River. wasn’t aware at the time, but my friend Richard Rohrbagh tied it. Here is the information that went with the fly: “Nestled on the banks of the mighty River…
On the next stop of our 2018 fly fishing road trip, we planned to fish a week on the Madison River, MT, but decided to try our luck for a day fly fishing Ennis Lake. I’ve always heard about the trout in Ennis Lake, but it’s like anything new…sometimes it’s easier not to try. Perhaps…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Doughton’s Pete’s Special. I recently completed a custom fly order for several sea run cutthroat flies and the Doughton’s Pete’s Special was one of them. You can read that story HERE. I thought it would make a great TBT post. I am no expert about Doughton’s Hardware, but read it…
The next stop on our 2018 road trip was fly fishing the South Fork of the Snake and Teton rivers. Our friend Mike Avery of Snake River Net Company invited us to stay with him a couple of days and enjoy the fly fishing around Idaho Falls. It was a great opportunity and didn’t take…
