I completed tying all the flies we’ll be using in Chile. We leave in a couple of days and thought you’d enjoy the list of flies I’m taking to Patagonia. First of all, let me say all these flies is probably overkill, but hey, I’m a fly tyer! Lodges differ on whether they provide all…
This is my final post for the year and I’d like to share some of my favorite memories from 2024 on RiverKeeper Flies. The image above is from the Kaldakvisl River in Iceland. We took a photography tour in May, coinciding with the bird migration and ended our trip with a couple days fly fishing for…
Happy holidays to my fly fishing and fly tying friends! My wish for you in the new year is to be healthy and chase as many fish as possible. Enjoy…go fish!
I’ve been tying quite a few flies the last couple of weeks in anticipation of our upcoming trip to Chile and Argentina. I thought I’d provide an update on filling my Patagonia fly boxes. I still have many more to tie, but have been concentrating on the hers and his dry fly boxes. Dancingtrout should…
This is a story about the woes of a fly tyer I thought you might enjoy. I’ve been tying flies for our upcoming trip to Argentina and Chile and the next fly on my list was Swisher’s PMX Royal. For those of you who don’t tie flies, you might enjoy this as well because it…
I’ve been at the vise, filling customer fly orders and our Patagonia fly boxes. I thought I’d share the diversity of flies I’ve tied in the last couple of weeks. Believe it or not, these are called Despair Nymphs and were created in the 1930’s. I tied a dozen for one of my customers, four…
I was on the river a few weeks ago, sitting on a log waiting for fish to rise and begin feeding on mayflies floating downstream. I pulled out my PMD fly box to select either an Improved Sparkle Dun, RiverKeeper Soft Hackle Cripple, or a Parachute variant I tied recently. It got me to asking…
I thought it was time for another images from the water post. These are from the last month or so. I’ll begin with this mayfly. I liked the reflection of the wings on the water. Notice how orange the eyes are? A healthy Metolius River redside. A damselfly floating in an eddy. A katydid on…
I’ve been tying a lot of parachute flies lately, filling our Patagonia fly box with Parachute Adams and Purple Haze. I sat down and tied 5 dozen size 14 flies and 4 dozen size 16 flies. I thought I’d share how to tie consistent parachute flies and ended up creating a YouTube video. One of…
The 2024 Casting for Recovery online auction will be held November 7 thru 17. Proceeds from the auction benefit Casting for Recovery (CfR). There are several items directly benefiting the Southern Oregon CfR retreat my wife runs which I’ve shared below. Custom tied flies by RiverKeeper Flies and Montana Fly Company Poly Fly Box –…
