• The Ross Reel No. 2

    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…

  • Northern Idaho Trude

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is a Northern Idaho Trude. 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. The Trude fly was developed by Carter Harrison in either…

  • Northern Idaho Bee

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is a Northern Idaho Bee. This fly is one 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. Here is a sampling of a few other posts I…

  • Northern Idaho Flying Ant

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is a Northern Idaho Flying Ant. This fly is one 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. Here is the top view of the fly. The…

  • Wally’s Feather Duster

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday fly is Wally’s Feather Duster. The fly was in a box of flies I borrowed from my friend Jim Fisher. The fly was developed by Wally Eagle in West Yellowstone in the 1970’s. Materials used to tie the fly included a real feather duster, hence the name. I found information…

  • Bob Jacklin Salmonfly

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is a Bob Jacklin Salmonfly. My friend Jim Fisher loaned this #4 salmonfly to me for this post and told me it was tied by Bob. I wrote a previous TBT post featuring Jacklon’s Salmonfly, a different version than the image above. Jacklin is a fixture in West Yellowstone,…

  • Black Brahan Atlantic Salmon Fly

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Black Brahan 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. He was successful landing a 32 inch, 12 pound Atlantic Salmon on a Munro Killer using a Winston 9′…

  • Barr’s Meat Whistle TBT

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Barr’s Meat Whistle TBT. I tied this fly recently for a customer and thought it a good candidate for my TBT post. John Barr started developing the Meat Whistle in 2002. He spent two years tweaking the fly and fishing it alongside his normal spinning rod jig. It…

  • Ellis Triple Wing Spinner

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Ellis Triple Wing Spinner, which I tied to imitate a Rusty Spinner. I thought it was fitting to feature a mayfly spinner as this week’s TBT, since I wrote about PMD Spinner Fly Patterns in yesterday’s post. The Ellis Triple Wing Spinner can be found in Kelly…

  • Bergman’s Ibis and White

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Ray Bergman’s Ibis and White. Bergman’s Ibis and White is a wet fly listed in his book entitled Trout (1940 – fourth printing) on page 64, Plate No. 4. As I’ve mentioned many times, I enjoy highlighting a Bergman wet fly because it forces me to sit down and tie…