I’ve been busy tying flies lately. But I was able to get to the river a couple of times recently and reconciled to myself if I really wanted to catch fish, fishing with nymphs was the best solution. What a difference a year makes. Last year by this time, we had five feet of snow…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Bailey’s Ginger Quill. This fly pictured above was from a collection of flies tied by Dan Bailey. I was fortunate to be able to photograph a total of nine Bailey flies, a Light Cahill, Grey Hackle, Dark Cahill, Black Gnat, Black Bivisible, Blonde Wulff, Fan Wing Royal Coachman, Mosquito, and this Ginger…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Dan Bailey’s Black Gnat. This fly pictured above was from a colllection of flies tied by Dan Bailey. I was fortunate to be able to photograph a total of nine Bailey flies, a Light Cahill, Grey Hackle, Dark Cahill, Ginger Quill, Black Bivisible, Blonde Wulff, Fan Wing Royal…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is a Blonde Wulff, tied by Dan Bailey. Lee Wulff (1905 – 1991) created the Royal Wulff in 1930 along with the Gray Wulff and White Wulff. The Gray Wulff was the first of the series. He fished all three fly patterns on the Esopus River in the Catskill mountains of New…
Happy New Year! I hope you had a wonderful 2017 and are beginning to develop fishing plans for 2018. I’ve been tying flies the last week as I begin refilling fly boxes. Mostly Beetle Bailey flies for a customer who plans to use them in Patagonia. But we had a new fly fisher stop by the…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Dan Bailey’s Mosquito. This fly was from a collection of flies tied by Dan Bailey. I was fortunate to be able to photograph a total of nine Bailey flies – a Blonde Wulff, Light Cahill, Grey Hackle, Dark Cahill, Ginger Quill, Black Bivisible, Black Gnat, Fan Wing Royal…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Fan Wing Royal Coachman. This Fan Wing Royal Coachman was tied by Dan Bailey. It’s one of nine flies I was able to document with my camera. Last week’s TBT fly, the Black Bivisible, is the first fly I posted that was tied by Dan.
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Black Bivisible. This fly was from a collection of flies tied by Dan Bailey. I was fortunate to be able to photograph a total of nine Bailey flies – a Blonde Wulff, Mosquito, Light Cahill, Grey Hackle, Dark Cahill, Ginger Quill, Black Gnat, Fan Wing Royal Coachman,…
I returned to the river yesterday looking for rising fish, which didn’t happen. What I found were a variety of bugs floating down the river without fish eating them. Most of them were blue wing olives (BWO), a small mayfly that can hatch almost any month of the year. That got me thinking about my fly…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Royal Wulff TBT. This is another fly I found while reading Mike Valla’s terrific book entitled The Founding Flies – 43 American Masters, Their Patterns and Influences. Lee Wulff (1905 – 1991) created the Royal Wulff in 1930 along with the Gray Wulff and White Wulff. The Gray Wulff…
