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…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Doughton’s Female Coachman. I recently completed a custom fly order for several sea run cutthroat flies and the Doughton’s Female Coachman 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…
We started another fly fishing road trip last week. We decided to fly fish the Owyhee River on the way to Fly Fishers International Fair in Boise, ID. Our arrival to the river was early evening and we checked out the river as we drove upstream. By the time we arrived, there weren’t too many…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Doughton’s Siletz Special. I recently completed a custom fly order for several sea run cutthroat flies and the Doughton’s Siletz 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…
A few weeks ago, I was asked by a customer to tie an order of sea run cutthroat flies. What quickly caught my attention was his reference to Wayne Doughton. If you’ve read my About Me page, you know Wayne was the first person to teach me to tie a fly. He owned Doughton’s Hardware…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Blue Ribbon Flies Epeorus Spinner. I’m planning another trip to the Madison River, MT in the near future and wanted to make sure I had a few of these flies in the provider box. The light bulb suddenly went on that it would make a great TBT…
I’ve been known to say if you break a rod, you’ll have a hell of a story. Here is my story of a Bull Trout and broken rod that happened recently. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let me start at the beginning. The dog days of summer are definitely here as the heat wave…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Blue Ribbon Flies Iris Caddis. The Blue Ribbon Flies Iris Caddis is a fly I’ve been fishing the last few years and it has worked well for me. After I wrote my post, Fly Fish the Madison River in Early July, I thought many readers may not know the history…
