This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Pink Lady, a classic Catskill fly. This Pink Lady was tied by Bob Kern at the International Federation of Fly Fishers Fair in Livingston, MT in August 2016. Bob did an amazing job of mounting the wings, utilizing the double-slip quill wing style. He drove all the way to…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Wonder Wing Drake. Al and Gretchen Beatty graciously provided the information below from their new eBook entitled Wonder Wing Flies. While they didn’t invent the Wonder Wing, they have refined the technique used to drastically remove the possibility of the fly twisting while being cast due to…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Dark Caddis, a fly tied by Polly Rosborough. I found this fly on a display at the International Federation of Fly Fishers Museum in Livingston, MT. It’s is one of several flies in a display entitled Polly’s Proven Killers. I took this picture of the Dark Caddis through…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Scarlet Ibis. I took this picture at the International Federation of Fly Fisher’s Museum in Livingston, MT when attending the IFFF Fair in August 2016. Walking around the Museum, I took a few pictures of flies that spoke to me and this was one of them. My…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Stayner Ducktail TBT. Ruel Stayner of Twin Falls, ID created this bait fish fly pattern to imitate bait fish in the lakes and reservoirs he fished. Stayner owned and operated a sporting goods store in Twin Falls and created this fly in the late 1960’s. He attempted…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Steelhead Bee TBT, a fly tied by Roderick Haig-Brown (1908 – 1976). I found this fly on a display at the International Federation of Fly Fishers Museum in Livingston, MT. It’s is one of several flies in a display entitled Roderick Haig-Brown His Tackle & His Flies….
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Golden Girl TBT, a fly tied by Roderick Haig-Brown (1908 – 1976). I took this picture of the Golden Girl through the glass display in a dark room and I think it turned out quite well. It was one of several flies in the collection and I plan to post…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Silver Brown – TBT, a fly tied by Roderick Haig-Brown (1908 – 1976). I took this picture of the Silver Brown through the glass display in a dark room and I think it turned out quite well. It was one of several flies in the collection and I…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Silver Lady, a fly tied by Roderick Haig-Brown (1908 – 1976). I took this picture of the Silver Lady through the glass display in a dark room and I think it turned out quite well. It was one of several flies in the collection and I plan to…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Parson. It’s a fly I found in a fly box someone gave me several years ago. It’s an interesting fly and perhaps I’ll get around to tying my own version someday. Here is an excerpt from A Book on Angling by Francis Francis, the first edition published in…
