I shared this fly about a month ago and decided to create a video tying a CDC Little Olive Stone. The fly imitates the size 16 and 18 stoneflies we’ve seen on the streamside vegetation and flitting on the water. You might mistake them for Caddis, because they fly in a similar manner, but capture…
We’re home from our fly fishing road trip. Insect hatches on several rivers we fished on our trip were diminishing and if you are a dry fly fisher like me, matching the hatch ends and attractor fly patterns are what I use, especially hoppers, beetles, and ants. It’s August and time for terrestrial flies. What…
I’ve been tying Catskill dry flies for a customer and thought I’d share some classics and the Atherton No. 1 – No. 6 series with you.
In this week’s post I share images of Green Drake spinners and flies to imitate them.
I just finished filling a customer fly order for 68 flies, trying to tie a few flies each day before or after fishing. I thought you might enjoy seeing some of them.
I happened to see my first Salmonfly of the season recently on my home waters. This isn’t a huge hatch like other waters in Central Oregon or the rivers you fish. But the Metolius is known for a Golden Stone hatch in the upper river starting around the 4th of July. We have a trip…
All of a sudden, you see fish rising. What are they rising to? Hmmm, something just flew into me. I look on my shoulder. It’s a flying ant! Have you ever fished the flying ant hatch? I don’t believe it’s a well-known hatch, but on my home waters, expect to see ants hitting you or…
I’ve spent time at the vise lately and finished an order of 96 dry flies for a customer and thought I’d share a few images of the flies. The first two are Klinkhamer and Quigley style flies. I enjoy tying these flies with turkey biot furled bodies. Both of these flies are size 20, a…
I hope you were able to read last week’s post about my fly tying activity. It’s fly tying season for me as I just completed the first of several orders. In addition to last week’s Zoom class I taught for my Central Oregon Fly Tyer’s Guild, I’ll be teaching again this week on another Zoom…
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…
