This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Montreal Yellow, another fly from the Ray Bergman collection. For some reason, I just like the elegance and simplicity of a Bergman wet fly. You can find the Montreal Yellow wet fly on Plate No. 6, page 123 of Bergman’s book entitled Trout (1940 – fourth printing). If you…
What a difference a year makes. Who would have thought we’d have spring fly fishing in February? I thought I had a lot more time to tie flies for my fly box and provider boxes. Last year by now, much of the snow that had fallen in December and January was melting. But this year…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Bailey’s Light Cahill. This fly pictured above was from a collection of flies tied by Dan Bailey. I was fortunate to be able to photograph a total of nine Bailey flies, a Grey Hackle, Dark Cahill, Black Gnat, Black Bivisible, Blonde Wulff, Fan Wing Royal Coachman, Mosquito, Ginger Quill and this Light Cahill. I’ve featured…
The 2018 NW Fly Tying & Fly Fishing Expo is one month away. You might recall I was the Expo Chair in 2015 & 2016, as well as the Treasurer for 4 1/2 years. I decided to step away from the Expo Committee last year and now answer a question or two in my adviser role….
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is a George Grant style fly. Obviously, this fly was tied by James V. Flaherty. I’ve watched him tie this style of flies at several Fly Fishing Fairs and Expos. I think he gave me this fly at the 50th anniversary of the Federation of Fly Fishers (now called…
Have you ever heard of Perdigon style flies? It’s relatively new to me. Sure I’ve heard of them, but since I fish with dry flies whenever I can, I didn’t really pay attention to them. Barber Pole Perdigon At a recent Central Oregon Flyfisher’s Winter Fly Tying class, Bill Seitz (I call him Crooked River…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Prime Gnat, another fly from the Ray Bergman collection. I’ve featured flies that Dan Bailey tied the last few weeks for my Throw Back Thursday Flies and I thought it was time to return to a Ray Bergman fly. For some reason, I just like the elegance…
I’ve been busy tying flies lately. But I was able to get to the river a couple of times recently and reconciled to myself if I really wanted to catch fish, fishing with nymphs was the best solution. What a difference a year makes. Last year by this time, we had five feet of snow…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Bailey’s Ginger Quill. This fly pictured above was from a collection of flies tied by Dan Bailey. I was fortunate to be able to photograph a total of nine Bailey flies, a Light Cahill, Grey Hackle, Dark Cahill, Black Gnat, Black Bivisible, Blonde Wulff, Fan Wing Royal Coachman, Mosquito, and this Ginger…
I just returned from the 2018 Western Idaho Fly Fishing Expo in Boise, ID. This was my 5th year tying at the Boise Expo. I decided to tie my RiverKeeper Stonefly Nymph and the Callibaetis Hatchmaster on Friday. On Saturday, I only tyed the second session and demonstrated my RiverKeeper Soft Hackle Cripple. One of my…
