Fly fishing the St. Joe River ID has always been on my to-do list. While making plans for the 2017 fly fishing road trip, I scratched it off the list because I chose other rivers to fish instead. It’s always good when a “plan B” comes together after discovering a bust. We had planned to…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is about the Parachute Chernobyl and Joe Cantrell. The Parachute Chernobyl is another variant of the original Chernobyl Ant. I highlighted the fly in an earlier TBT post. “Larry Tullis of Orem, Utah relays the fly’s development in Tying Flies with Foam, Fur, and Feathers by Harrison Steeves. Larry tied up…
Christmas in July? Yup. My wife and I just finished a couple of days on the Upper Columbia River fly fishing at Black Bear Lodge which is located about 10 miles from the US/Canadian border. We had heard about catching BIG rainbow trout on the Upper Columbia River using dry flies…and the fishing gods were…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Water Boatman TBT. Peter Bowers from the Patient Angler in Bend taught this fly during a Central Oregon Flyfisher’s Winter Fly Tying class a couple of years ago. He said the Water Boatman was a fly tied for Lake in the Dunes many years ago. I wish…
Last week I helped my wife lead the 2017 Next Cast Flyfishers master class outing at East Lake. She has done a terrific job leading these young fly fishers. Seven fly fishers between ages 12 and 16 were invited to attend this year’s outing. This was the second year we held the camp for these…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Krystal Flash Nymph TBT. I found this fly in a favorite book I used for many years – Hatch Guide for the Lower Deschutes River (1994) by Jim Schollmeyer. This is a small book and can be used as a stream-side reference. I also own his Hatch Guide for…
Fish Camp 2017 finished up last week with 12 more kids learning to fly fish. Fish Camp is a 3-day fly fishing camp for kids 10 – 14 years old in Bend, OR. It’s part of our fly club’s Next Cast Flyfishers (our youth program) goal to get kids into fly fishing in Central Oregon. My…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Rainbow Warrior, a fly developed by Lance Egan. The Rainbow Warrior is a relatively new “old” fly. I enjoy highlighting a variety of flies and this is fly catches fish. Lance Egan has been a member of Fly Fishing Team USA since 2003 at the World Fly Fishing Championships. He…
I haven’t fished any lakes yet this year, but hopefully that will change this week. I think East Lake will be my fishing destination in a couple of days. I thought I’d use my own resources to refresh my memory for a few effective East Lake flies I need in my fly box. I created…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Chartreuse Humpy. I’ve featured the Humpy as a TBT fly back in April 2015. But I chose this fly to highlight the importance of what fly tyers call “variant”. A “variant” gives the fly tyer the ability to change something on the original. Many times the change is as…
