This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Ray Bergman Dark Spinner. The Ray Bergman Dark Spinner is a wet fly listed in his book entitled Trout (1940 – fourth printing) on page 38, Plate No. 2. I usually tie just one fly for my TBT posts. I’m not trying to make them perfect, just…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Ray Bergman Pathfinder. The Ray Bergman Pathfinder is a Ray Bergman wet fly listed in his book entitled Trout (1940 – fourth printing) on page 169, Plate No. 7.
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Ray Bergman Olive Dun. The Olive Dun is a Ray Bergman dry fly listed in his book entitled Trout (1940 – fourth printing) on page 123, Plate No. 6. As I’ve mentioned many times, I enjoy highlighting a Bergman wet fly because it forces me to sit…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Ray Bergman Peacock. The Peacock is a Ray Bergman wet fly listed in his book entitled Trout (1940 – fourth printing) on page 169, Plate No. 7.
Did you happen to read my post last week entitled Simply Identify Bugs Fish Eat? I explained the three basic insects you’ll find on the river, a caddis, mayfly, and stonefly. This week’s post takes the next step to help create your first fly box with flies to imitate these bugs. If you’ve fly fished…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Gary LaFontaine’s Diving Egg Laying Midge. LaFontaine’s Diving Egg Laying Midge is one of the flies highlighted in LaFontaine’s Legacy, by Al and Gretchen Beatty.
It’s late September and October will be here before we know it. Can you believe Summer is almost over? I just finished a fly order for some October Caddis and that got me thinking about checking my fly boxes to see if I have enough flies for myself! Are you ready for October Caddis? I was…
It’s the middle of summer and that means it’s caddis time. Yes, all those spots are caddis…thousands and thousands of them. You might recognize this image a little better. These prolific bugs with their tent-shaped wings hatch throughout summer after the larger mayflies and stoneflies are finished. It can produce some very good fly fishing…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Light Blow. The Light Blow is another Ray Bergman wet fly listed in his book entitled Trout (1940 – fourth printing) on page 84, Plate No. 5.
I had a question recently from a newer fly fisher asking for fly recommendations to fish a specific lake. I hadn’t fished that lake, but it made me think. What are the basic lake flies I always carry? I started my fly fishing journey by fishing rivers. Much later I decided to fish lakes and…
