In today’s post, I’d like to share a work in progress, a fly I’ve been meaning to master for at least 3 years. After all, Richard Bunse created Bunse’s Natural Dun for the Green Drake hatch on the Metolius River. Why wouldn’t I want to do the fly justice? Except for a couple pieces of…
We’ve been out on our favorite river fishing the Green Drake hatch. The catching has been minimal so I’ve had my camera in hand capturing images of Green Drakes on the water and in flight. I thought I’d share some of them with you. The image above is the exception because we haven’t seen that…
I’m in Maui where I found warmer weather than home…between 30 – 40 degrees warmer! I brought a vise, tools, and a few materials with me and am tying the wings and tail for a Green Drake Sparkle Dun. That’s right, I almost always take my fly tying materials and tools if I plan to…
If you’ve followed RiverKeeper Flies for a while, it won’t come as a surprise I might be a little obsessed with Green Drakes, from tying effective imitations, fishing the flies during a hatch, and creating images through my photography. In fact, I’ve been thinking about them all week. I taught a Zoom fly tying class…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Stalcup’s CDC Emerging Dun – Green Drake. Stalcup’s CDC Emerging Dun – Green Drake is another example of Shane’s creative mind. In this fly, he combines a goose biot for the body and CDC as the wing just beginning to emerge from the nymphal shuck. Here is a…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Chuck Stranahan’s Olive Brindle Chute. I returned to Chuck Stranahan’s Flies & Guides last week. The Brindle Chute style of fly is one of Chuck’s “hallmark” flies. The full name of the Brindle Chute is Brindle Hackle Multi Colored Body Parachute. This is his olive version, which is labeled as…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is a Bob Jacklin Western Green Drake. I found this fly when I walked into his fly shop last week. I stood in front of the fly bins and selected several I thought would make likely candidates for my TBT posts.
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Roy Palm’s Frying Pan Biot Green Drake Parachute. Roy Palm of Frying Pan Anglers in Colorado created this fly. Unfortunately, Roy passed away in November 2019.
I wanted to highlight one of the Sparkle Dun deer hair patches I’ve been using. In the last week, I tied 6 dozen Green Drake Sparkle Duns and it reminded me how important finding and using the right deer hair is to successfully tie these flies. Half of the flies were for a customer and…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Bunse Natural Dun – Green Drake. The Bunse Natural Dun was created by Richard Bunse, Falls City, OR. I’m not certain when Richard created the fly, but I probably bought my first one in the 1980’s. If you know more about this fly, be sure to leave…
