Today’s Throw Back Thursday fly is the Carrie Stevens Green Drake streamer. I tied this fly for last year’s Expo Poster Plate, but they used my Pink Beauty instead.
Carrie Stevens created her own versions of streamers for Maine’s Rangeley Lakes Region. In July 1924, she landed a 6 pound 13 ounce brook trout, winning 2nd place in the Field & Stream magazine contest. Shortly after that, she began selling her flies.
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the LaFontaine Enchanted Prince. The LaFontaine Enhanced Prince is a twist of the old favorite Prince Nymph. Instead of tying the fly with a body of peacock, it’s tied with peacock herl AND some LaFontaine Double Magic dubbing for the body. For complete tying instructions how to tie…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Ray Bergman’s Hawthorne. Bergman’s Hawthorne is a wet fly listed in his book entitled Trout (1940 – fourth printing) on page 64, Plate No. 4. As I’ve mentioned many times, I enjoy highlighting a Bergman wet fly because it forces me to sit down and tie these elegant flies. Bergman’s…
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…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Pink Lady, a classic Catskill fly. This Pink Lady was tied by Bob Kern at the International Federation of Fly Fishers Fair in Livingston, MT in August 2016. Bob did an amazing job of mounting the wings, utilizing the double-slip quill wing style. He drove all the way to…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Lee Wulff’s Surface Stone Fly. This is a very interesting fly, one built with a molded, plastic body. It’s one of several plastic body flies a friend loaned to me for my Throw Back Thursday Fly posts. In Lee Wulff’s Trout on a Fly (1986), he states he came…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is The Rose. The Rose is a fly from the collection of Mary Orvis Marbury. I’ll call it a “variant” as I didn’t have the original materials to tie the fly. I used a Golden Pheasant body feather for the hackle and added black ostrich herl at the head…
