We are back fishing our home waters the Metolius River. I’m amazed at the diversity of bugs we see on the river. For the last few weeks, we seemed to concentrate fishing one bug, but on the Metolius, the variety is amazing. And it can be different only 50 yards away. Olive mayflies in one…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Gordon Fancy Atlantic Salmon fly. This is one of five Atlantic Salmon flies my friend Jim Fisher purchased during his 1986 fishing trip on the river Spey in Strathspey, Scotland and the last TBT post of these Atlantic Salmon flies. You might have seen the other flies…
The last stop on this year’s fly fishing road trip was our return to NF Clearwater and Kelly Creek. It was also the first stop as we started our trip east to Montana in late June. Hard to believe six weeks had passed when we arrived on August 10. We arrived in the afternoon and…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the California Mosquito TBT. A couple of weeks ago I posted a Mosquito as a Throw Back Thursday Fly. At the time, I had this thought in the back of my head about learning about the Mosquito in one of Randall Kaufmann’s books I purchased in the early…
By the time you read this post, we have arrived at home from our 2020 fly fishing road trip. After fishing Yellowstone National Park and the Madison River a second time, we discussed different routes to travel home. Should we drive back through Idaho and Eastern Oregon or retrace our previous fishing spots. We chose…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Blue Charm Atlantic Salmon Fly. This is one of five Atlantic Salmon flies my friend Jim Fisher purchased during his 1986 fishing trip on the river Spey in Strathspey, Scotland. You might have seen the other flies in previous TBT posts: He was successful landing a 32…
One thing about being spontaneous is you never know where you will be fly fishing next in SW Montana. How about Rock Creek? We left the Madison River with a tentative plan of places to fish as we slowly headed home. Fly fishing Rock Creek, MT in 2020 wasn’t on that list. We were on…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Mosquito. More of a top view showing split, upright wings. This is another fly from a box of old flies I borrowed from my friend Jim Fisher. He learned to fly fish in Northern Idaho. This fly is probably from the 1950’s or 60’s. I’m still on…
Our fly fishing road trip continues as we return to the Madison River. I think we were experiencing a phrase we’ve heard multiple times …”you’re between hatches”. Fishing was different when we returned to the Madison River after fishing four days in Yellowstone National Park. I don’t know why. Perhaps the larger fish moved out…
This week’s Throwback Thursday post is the Ross Reel No. 2. I bought this reel from a friend a few years ago. It was attached to a Winston – Tom Morgan Favorite 8 foot 4 weight fly rod. I don’t fish it often, but did pull it out when I recently fished Soda Butte Creek…
