• Effective East Lake Flies

    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…

  • Chartreuse Humpy

    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…

  • Mayfly Spinners

    On one of my fly fishing trips to the river last week, I was waiting for the fish to begin rising and I was curious about what flies were in the drift and available to the fish. A good place to find out is on the edges of an eddy. So I walked downstream to…

  • Langtry Special TBT

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Langtry Special TBT. I found this old article from the Bend Bulletin in a box of donated fly tying materials describing the Langtry Special. A friend of mine took his first fly tying lesson many years ago from Judge Virgil Langtry in a Maupin, Oregon church basement. Langtry…

  • June Fly Box

    Perhaps you saw last week’s post entitled Fishing the Lower Deschutes. I drifted the river twice last week. My fly box was full of Salmonfly and Golden Stonefly imitations. So I returned to my home river today and found many more PMD’s hatching and thought I better get my June fly box in order. Where…

  • Patient Angler Stone TBT

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Patient Angler Stone TBT. I found this old article from the Bend Bulletin in a box of donated fly tying materials describing the Patient Angler Stone. The Patient Angler is a local Bend, OR fly shop. The fly in the article was tied and described by John…

  • Fishing the Lower Deschutes

    Monday I was fishing the Lower Deschutes from Warm Springs to Trout Creek with my wife and a friend. We were hoping to find some fish still looking to eat Salmonflies and Golden Stones dry flies. This is a busy section of water and it’s tough to find my Zen sometimes. We decided to let…

  • Kaufmann’s Stonefly Nymph

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Kaufmann’s Stonefly Nymph. Kaufmann’s Stonefly Nymph was created by Randall Kaufmann in the early 1990’s. I first found the fly in the classic book entitled Tying Nymphs (1994) by Kaufmann. It was listed as the Kaufmann Golden Stone, Rubber Legs. The write-up described the Golden Stone version, along with the…