Last week I talked about several flies in my Filling Customer Fly Orders post including the Heindl and detailed images of the Hemingway Caddis.. I hope you saw them. Tying customer flies is about all I’m doing while waiting to get back out on the water. This week I continued to tie a variety of flies for…
I’ve been at the fly tying desk lately working hard filling customer fly orders as well as the provider box. I thought this week’s post would highlight a few flies that have been coming off my vise. Some of the popular requests lately have been Clark’s Lady Stone, Improved Sparkle Dun – PMD, Hemingway Caddis,…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Munro Killer Atlantic Salmon Fly. The Munro Killer was developed by John Milne Morrison of Aberlour, Strathspey, Scotland. You might be familiar with the name Aberlour as Aberlour is a distillery of Speyside single malt Scotch whisky. John Morrison owned a shoe shop where he was a…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday post is an old Herter’s Whip Finisher tool. You might recall the Herter’s No. 4 Fly Tying Vise I highlighted a few weeks ago. This is a Herter’s tool my friend Jim Fisher showed me when he pulled out the vise and several older fly patterns. As I recall, he…
If you are a regular here at RiverKeeper Flies, you know I’ve been tying LOTS of flies. This past week is no exception. I was asked by a new customer if I could tie up some Thunder Thighs hopper patterns for him. What are Thunder Thighs you ask? Well, I asked the same question. That’s…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Kelly Galloup’s Sunken Spinner. This fly pattern was originally found in his book entitled Cripples and Spinners (2001), which you can purchase from his fly shop or by clicking the link to purchase from Amazon. Many of you already know about spinner falls, the last stage of a mayfly’s…
This week’s post will highlight a few flies coming off my vise AND include a comment about how to fish them. I hope it will help you determine what flies to include in your fly box when we can start fishing again. I recognize not all readers of my RiverKeeper Flies weekly posts tie flies….
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Vint Johnson’s Red Squirrel Tail Streamer. This is another fly my friend Jim Fisher pulled out of his collection while I visited with him earlier this year. Vint Johnson operated The Tackle Shop in West Yellowstone, MT in the early 1930’s. He was a fly tier, mentor and…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Gartside Sparrow Fly. This is a fly my friend purchased from a fly shop in Big Sky, MT in the 1970’s. He fished the fly on the Gallatin and Madison Rivers, MT. The Sparrow Fly was created by Jack Gartside. I have heard the name Gartside before,…
It won’t be long before fishing season begins for many fly fishers. That’s because March Brown mayflies are coming soon. This is the first of the larger mayflies trout will see in the coming months and an emerger or dry fly is a lot of fun to fish. Western March Brown mayflies (Rhithrogena morrisoni) are in…
