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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Stalcup’s Medallion Biot Green Drake Wet Fly. I first learned of Stalcup’s flies in his book Mayflies “Top to Bottom” (2002). I thought the materials he used were creative and interesting. The flies he tied were close imitations of the real insects. It was the first time I had heard…
I’m lucky enough to be able to fly fish a lot, both around my home in Central Oregon and other world-class locations in Montana, Idaho, British Columbia, and Washington. As I try to finish preparing for a fly fishing road trip with my fishing partner (my wife), I reminisce about previous rivers and the great…
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…
It’s that special time of year when Salmonflies and Golden Stones are hatching on major rivers close to me. These are the bugs many fly fishers wait for with high expectations. Some fly fishers start shaking as they approach the river knowing the bugs are out and the fish are looking up, ready to explode on their…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Buszek’s Kings River Caddis. I recently finished up a fly order for a customer that included a few of Buszek’s Kings River Caddis. After filling his order and tying a few for myself, I decided this fly would be a good candidate for this week’s TBT post. Buszek’s Kings…
