This is my final post for the year and I’d like to share some of my favorite memories from 2023 on RiverKeeper Flies. You might recall I keep track of the flies I tie. This year, the grand total is approaching 1,450 with a couple more days to go until the new year. The total includes…
As I write this post on Monday, Christmas is only one week away. Have you finished all your shopping? If not, check out my 2023 Fly Fisher’s Christmas list for a few last minute ideas. I continue to spend time at the fly tying vise. I finished tying all of our flies for Patagonia which…
I’ve been spending a lot of hours at the vise lately, filling our Patagonia fly boxes for our trip to Argentina and Chile next month. I finished them last night, a total of 252 flies. I hope you read my Filling My Patagonia Fly Box progress report I wrote two weeks ago. Notice the “his…
I featured a midge pupa in last week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly post, Dorsey’s Black Beauty. It reminded me it’s time to tie on some nymphs if I want to see a trout on the end of my line. Yes, it’s time to fish with my Euro nymph rod. This is my small nymph fly…
I’ve been making progress in the last week, working on filling my Patagonia fly box. I thought you might enjoy a few images of the flies. The image above shows our “hers and his” fly boxes…one for Dancingtrout and one for me. They are filled with Fat Albert flies in brown/tan and black, sizes 8…
I’ve been sitting at my fly tying vise this week working on flies for our upcoming trip to Patagonia. All the flies are Fat Alberts in a couple of sizes and colors. My mind wanders a lot when tying and I started to think why are attractor fly patterns effective? I featured this fly last…
Welcome to this year’s holiday wish list. It seems like yesterday I was posting for 2022. Where has the year gone? I hope you find something useful on the 2023 Fly Fisher’s Christmas list. Many of these items can be purchased at your local fly shop and I encourage you to do so. But if…
How many flies do you really fish? If you are like me, you’ve got a short list of favorites. Mine is a Sparkle Dun and the IOBO Humpy this year. I met a customer the other day who purchased some of my flies and told me his favorite fly to fish is a Renegade. A…
The last few days I’ve been tying a fly order which include some of my favorite flies. These are the same flies I tied and donated to the recent CfR auction and benefited the Casting for Recovery – Oregon South my wife leads. My customer was one of the bidders for the flies, but lost…
While walking the river last week searching for rising fish, I stopped by an eddy to see what insects I might find. To my surprise, I found many fall PMDs and a few other insects as well. It reminded me of a few posts I’ve written about PMDs over the years. And it also made…
