We just finished several days of fly fishing the Henry’s Fork of the Snake River. Last year, we arrived to fish the Brown and Green Drake hatches in late June. I’ll provide links to those posts at the bottom of today’s post. Our arrival was a couple weeks later on purpose. We watched the weather…
I hope you get a chuckle from a few RiverKeeper Flies outtakes. How many times have you tried to take a grip and grin picture and the fish explodes at exactly the moment you press the shutter release? This quick release happens more times than I care to admit! I’ve included a few moving water…
I’m getting ready for a fly fishing road trip and am in the process of checking fly lines, leader, and flies to ensure I’m ready. If you are a regular here at RiverKeeper Flies, you know we’ve headed to Montana the last few years about now. We’ll occasionally stop in Idaho on the way and…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Lee Clark’s Twisted Body Stone. The Twisted Body Stone is a different technique of using 100% polypropylene to create a body to imitate larger flies. Lee is better known for his original Clark’s Golden Stone shown below using the same material to imitate a body with it combed…
It won’t be long before we head East to Montana on this year’s fly fishing road trip. We fish in beautiful places during our road trips, but the last couple of weeks, I’m reminded why I live in Sisters. It turns out we have good dry fly fishing on my local waters, the Metolius River….
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Polly’s Muskrat Nymph. A couple of weeks ago, I presented Polly’s Fledermouse Nymph and thought since I had used muskrat, I’d highlight another nymph utilizing the same material. It’s a simple fly to tie with the most difficult aspect is locating the natural materials of muskrat and beaver. This…
Last week found us floating the Deschutes River from Warm Springs to Trout Creek, a very popular drift section. Perhaps you read my post, Water is Life on the Deschutes River a few weeks ago where we fished with Littleleaf Outfitters on the Warm Springs Reservation. Our hope was to fish Salmonfly and Golden Stone…
I’ve had time to think along the river lately while waiting for insects to hatch and fish to rise. I thought I’d share 5 tips to improve your fly fishing success and I’ll offer a few products I use frequently while fishing. Today’s post isn’t only for my readers. I need to heed my own…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Polly Rosborough’s Fledermouse Nymph. I recently had a customer request several of these flies and thought it would be a good candidate for a TBT post. Here is a close-up of the nymph. Ernest H. “Polly” Rosborough (1902 – 1997) lived in Chiloquin, Oregon and his home river…
This week’s post includes some images from the river. While we’ve picked up a few fish here and there, the colder temperatures seem to have impacted the hatches and fish eating habits. So I seem to be paying much more attention to my surroundings when I don’t see any rising fish. On the other hand,…
