• Montana Fly Box

    Over the last few weeks, I’ve written about our Montana Road Trip where we fished the Madison, Depuy Spring Creek, Stillwater, and Slough Creek & the Lamar. I thought I’d provide a summary of the effective flies we used in our Montana fly box. When selecting flies, I always try to imitate the insects I think…

  • Silver Brown – TBT

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Silver Brown – TBT, a fly tied by Roderick Haig-Brown (1908 – 1976). I took this picture of the Silver Brown through the glass display in a dark room and I think it turned out quite well. It was one of several flies in the collection and I…

  • Silver Lady – TBT

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Silver Lady, a fly tied by Roderick Haig-Brown (1908 – 1976). I took this picture of the Silver Lady through the glass display in a dark room and I think it turned out quite well. It was one of several flies in the collection and I plan to…

  • The Parson

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Parson. It’s a fly I found in a fly box someone gave me several years ago. It’s an interesting fly and perhaps I’ll get around to tying my own version someday.  Here is an excerpt from A Book on Angling by Francis Francis, the first edition published in…

  • Swannundaze Midge

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Swannundaze Midge. The fly was developed by Boyd Aigner of Seattle Washington in the 1980’s.  The Swannundaze Midge is one I tied many years ago that I found in Randall Kaufmann’s Tying Nymphs book. Tying Nymphs and Tying Dry Flies were two important books for me and I tied many…

  • Timberline Emerger TBT

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Timberline Emerger TBT. The Timberline Emerger is one of Randall Kaufmann’s flies I read about and tied many years ago. It’s another great pattern from his Tying Nymphs book, published in 1994. Kaufmann’s book was one of the first color fly tying books I ever owned, along with it’s…