I just finished tying a custom fly order and decided the next flies from the vise would be a few Mahogany Duns with different wing variations. Now is the time of year when you might find Mahogany Duns hatching and floating down your favorite river. It hasn’t been a hatch I’ve fished much, but others…
In today’s post, I’d like to share a work in progress, a fly I’ve been meaning to master for at least 3 years. After all, Richard Bunse created Bunse’s Natural Dun for the Green Drake hatch on the Metolius River. Why wouldn’t I want to do the fly justice? Except for a couple pieces of…
Can you believe it’s the first of September? Summer has really flown by for me! I look forward to fly fishing in September and October because the weather usually begins to cool and insect activity picks up. It’s time to check the flies in my September fly boxes to make sure I am ready for…
I’ve been strapping on my new fly fishing pack for a few months and thought I’d share my thoughts using the Umpqua Northfork pack. I wrote about replacing my worn out Temple Fork Outfitter pack with this Umpqua Northfork 5L pack in June. You can read my post here – New Fly Fishing Pack. I’ve…
I was on the river the other day searching for rising fish. Not many were cooperating and it got me thinking how long we stand watching the river waiting for a fish to rise. I began thinking of words to describe my feelings and thought how much observation, patience, and hope helps a fly fisher…
We’ve been home a couple weeks from our fly fishing road trip and I need to get back to the vise. After being gone a month, I’ve missed tying flies. I always take my fly tying vise and a few materials with me when I travel and tied a couple dozen Improved Sparkle Duns like…
The next stop on this year’s fly fishing road trip is fly fishing the Green River below Fontenelle Reservoir. We left the Grey’s River and drove to Salt Lake City, UT for a quick family visit. Upon leaving Salt Lake for our 200 mile trip, we drove through Park City, UT, Evanston, WY and stopped…
The next stop on our 2024 fly fishing road trip was a return to the Grey’s River in Wyoming after spending 2 weeks on the Madison. We first fished the Grey’s River back in 2021. This year, our trip began in Alpine, WY and we drove upstream. In 2021, we started at the headwaters of…
Dancingtrout and I finished our second week fly fishing the Madison River. I hope you read last week’s post, Fly Fishing the Madison River in Early July 2024. I still believe the heat impacted the fishing and we experienced fewer fish to the net. A couple fly fishers I talked to said they found trout…
We have been fly fishing the Madison River in early July 2024 and it’s been HOT! Not the fishing…the temperature! I’m guessing you experienced the same high temperatures where you live too. But here we are, enjoying the wade section which includes $3 Bridge, West Fork, and Lyon’s Bridge. The elevation is just over 6,000…
