This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Patient Angler Stone TBT. I found this old article from the Bend Bulletin in a box of donated fly tying materials describing the Patient Angler Stone. The Patient Angler is a local Bend, OR fly shop. The fly in the article was tied and described by John…
Monday I was fishing the Lower Deschutes from Warm Springs to Trout Creek with my wife and a friend. We were hoping to find some fish still looking to eat Salmonflies and Golden Stones dry flies. This is a busy section of water and it’s tough to find my Zen sometimes. We decided to let…
It’s that special time of year when Salmonflies and Golden Stones are hatching on major rivers close to me. These are the bugs many fly fishers wait for with high expectations. Some fly fishers start shaking as they approach the river knowing the bugs are out and the fish are looking up, ready to explode on their…
Wow! The weather has changed dramatically this week. The forecast shows 81 degrees on Thursday. The anticipation of some major hatches is very exciting and I decided I have to get a May fly box ready for the river. This is what I hope to catch. I’ve found the fish to be a little more…
Winter is a great time for restocking and organizing your fly boxes. How many fly boxes do you carry? How do you organize them? It’s been too long and my fly boxes have seen some serious neglect the last few months. I fish over 100 days a year. How many over 100? I used to…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Rosborough Dark Stone Nymph. I found the fly on display at the International Federation of Fly Fishers Museum in Livingston, MT and took this picture of the Rosborough Dark Stone Nymph through the glass display in a dark room. I think it turned out quite well. It was…
The temperatures have dropped and the dog days of summer are over. In fact, rain showers are in the forecast for today. What does that signal? Changing seasons for the fly fisher. I always look forward to arriving at the river and see if fish are rising. It’s more the norm now than it was during…
We fished the Lower D recently while drifting from Warm Springs to Trout Creek and happened to run into Eric’s Deschutes River Bar and Grill. Have you seen it along the river as you’ve floated? The location is a secret, but if you can find it, I highly recommend it. Launch your drift boat at Warm Springs…
Earlier this month, I wrote a post entitled Where to Fish where I tried to describe the difficulty of all the fly fishing choices available to me. Today I’m headed to the Lower Deschutes to see if the Golden Stoneflies are still around in numbers to have a few fish looking up. And that means…
I wrote a post about Chubby Chernobyl fly patterns flies a couple of years ago. Did you read it? This is the time of year when you should have them in you fly box and another opportunity for me to tout how effective Chubby Chernobyl flies can be. For some reason, the Chubby Chernobyl is…
