• My Favorite New-to Me Flies

    One of the benefits of being a custom fly tyer is the opportunity to learn and tie new-to-me flies. The latest is a Parasol Post Pheasant Tail Emerger. I wanted to share some of my favorite new-to-me flies with you today. This is my first try tying a parasol post fly. I’ve watched a couple…

  • BEAST Fleye Zoom Presentation

    I wanted to share that I will be making a BEAST Fleye Zoom presentation this coming Friday night, February 27, 2026 at 5 pm Pacific time. The presentation is for Gretchen and Al Beatty’s BT’s Fly Tying Friday class they’ve been leading for the past several years during the winter and spring months. If you…

  • My Favorite Caddis Dry Flies

    It shouldn’t come as a surprise if you’ve followed RiverKeeper Flies for some time that I like to fish dry flies. I can tie many fly patterns, but I always come back to what I describe as simple, but effective flies. That phrase seems to be my mantra and those types of flies are generally…

  • At the Vise

    I’ve been tying flies at the vise, for customers as well as our own fly boxes. I enjoy tying a variety of flies for my customers. Many of them I don’t fish, but they are a joy to tie. In fact, remember the 8/0 BEAST Fleyes I featured a few weeks ago (link HERE)? I…

  • Tying a CDC Little Olive Stone

    I shared this fly about a month ago and decided to create a video tying a CDC Little Olive Stone. The fly imitates the size 16 and 18 stoneflies we’ve seen on the streamside vegetation and flitting on the water. You might mistake them for Caddis, because they fly in a similar manner, but capture…

  • Fishing the Flying Ant Hatch

    All of a sudden, you see fish rising. What are they rising to? Hmmm, something just flew into me. I look on my shoulder. It’s a flying ant! Have you ever fished the flying ant hatch? I don’t believe it’s a well-known hatch, but on my home waters, expect to see ants hitting you or…

  • Time at the Vise

    I’ve spent time at the vise lately and finished an order of 96 dry flies for a customer and thought I’d share a few images of the flies. The first two are Klinkhamer and Quigley style flies. I enjoy tying these flies with turkey biot furled bodies. Both of these flies are size 20, a…

  • It’s Fly Tying Season

    I hope you were able to read last week’s post about my fly tying activity. It’s fly tying season for me as I just completed the first of several orders. In addition to last week’s Zoom class I taught for my Central Oregon Fly Tyer’s Guild, I’ll be teaching again this week on another Zoom…