This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the John Atherton No. 5 Dry Fly. John Atherton (1900 – 1952) was an artist by trade and incorporated his impressionistic art into the flies he tied. Interestingly, he didn’t name the flies, choosing instead to number his dry flies from 1 to 7, representing lighter to darker…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Mike Mercer’s Profile Spinner – PMD. I found this fly pattern in Mike Mercer’s Creative Fly Tying (2005) book. He relays a problem he had fishing spinner patterns on California’s Fall River where thousands and thousands of natural PMD Spinners were floating downstream with trout gorging themselves on these insects….
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Ray Bergman’s Yankee. It’s been a while since I featured a classic Ray Bergman fly. The Yankee is a very simple soft hackle fly that is listed on Plate No.9, page 234 of Bergman’s Trout (1940 – fourth printing). As I’ve mentioned many times, I enjoy highlighting a Bergman…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Ray Bergman’s Sanctuary. It’s been a while since I featured a classic Ray Bergman fly. The Sanctuary is a very simple soft hackle fly that is listed on Plate No. 8, page 222 of Bergman’s Trout (1940 – fourth printing) As I’ve mentioned many times, I enjoy highlighting a…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Stalcup’s CDC Emerging Dun – Green Drake. Stalcup’s CDC Emerging Dun – Green Drake is another example of Shane’s creative mind. In this fly, he combines a goose biot for the body and CDC as the wing just beginning to emerge from the nymphal shuck. Here is a…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Dave’s Hopper fly pattern. This is another fly pattern I haven’t tied in years. A customer recently asked me to tie the fly and I thought it was a great candidate for a TBT post. So here it is. Dave’s Hopper was designed by Dave Whitlock in the…
I’m surprised at the variety of flies I tie. I tie a lot of flies for my customers and receive feedback from some of them. I always enjoy reading their notes to me and it’s always rewarding to see the fruits of my labor. I pleased to see my flies work! Not the normal trout…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Roy Palm’s Frying Pan Biot Green Drake Parachute. Roy Palm of Frying Pan Anglers in Colorado created this fly. Unfortunately, Roy passed away in November 2019. If you’ve been around RiverKeeper Flies for a while, you know how I like Green Drakes! I think I’ll give this fly…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday post is the Fly Tier’s Benchside Reference by Ted Leeson and Jim Schollmeyer. I purchased this 436-page reference book in 1999 as I recall. At $100, it was a major investment for me. Any question I had about a technique used to tie a fly was found in the book….
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is about the Adams fly pattern history. The Adams was one of my first Throw Back Thursday Flies, posted in August 2014. I consisted of one image of a fly I tied many years ago (below), one sentence, and a link to a video. I’ve come a long way…
