• Ray Bergman’s Beauty

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Ray Bergman’s Beauty. This fly was tied by my friend Jim Fisher, the 2011 Stan Walters Memorial Tyer of the Year from the Oregon Council of Fly Fisher’s International. I recently spent a few hours with him for a tutorial on selecting materials and techniques used to tie…

  • Lance Egan’s Red Dart

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Lance Egan’s Red Dart. OK, this might not be a real old fly, but it will be 9 years old this year. I read where Lance Egan developed this fly in 2011 for the World Fly Fishing Championships held in Bolzano, Italy. He used his new fly to…

  • Ray Bergman’s Saltoun

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Ray Bergman’s Saltoun wet fly. The Saltoun is a Ray Bergman dry fly listed in his book entitled Trout (1940 – fourth printing) on page 222, Plate No. 8. Bergman was well known for his wet flies, but his book also lists dry flies, streamers, nymphs, steel head and land…

  • Ray Bergman Pale Evening Dun

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Ray Bergman Pale Evening Dun. The Pale Evening Dun is a Ray Bergman dry fly listed in his book entitled Trout (1940 – fourth printing) on page 123, Plate No. 6. Bergman was well known for his wet flies, but his book also lists dry flies, streamers, nymphs,…

  • Jacklin Woolly Worm

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Jacklin Woolly Worm. The Jacklin Woolly Worm pictured above is another fly tied by Bob Jacklin and loaned to me by a good friend. He told me Bob has used this fly with success on the Madison River between Hebgen and Quake Lakes in Montana. Jacklin is…

  • White Miller Dry Fly

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the White Miller dry fly. This is a fly a customer gave me as a sample to tie for him, a size 12 short-shank hook. I did some quick research on a White Miller dry fly and couldn’t find much at all about the origins of the fly….

  • LaFontaine’s Floating Flex Crayfish

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Gary LaFontaine’s Floating Flex Crayfish. LaFontaine’s Floating Flex Crayfish is another of the flex-style flies highlighted in LaFontaine’s Legacy (2008), by Gretchen and Al Beatty. It’s difficult to see in the image above, but there are pheasant tail fibers sticking out on both sides to represent the crayfish pincers. Gretchen and…

  • Diving Damsel

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Diving Damsel nymph. I learned about the Diving Damsel nymph from a customer who contacted me to tie up a few custom flies. He had saved an article from the March/April 1997 edition of American Angler magazine. The article title was Designs on Damsels by John Shewey….

  • Jacklin’s Salmonfly

    This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is a Bob Jacklin’s Salmonfly. A friend of mine loaned me this fly and told me Bob actually tied the fly. I was grateful to be able to feature one of Bob’s flies as a TBT. Jacklin is a fixture in West Yellowstone, having arrived in 1967. Bob worked…