This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Denny Rickards Seal Bugger. Denny created this fly in the mid-80’s on Oregon’s Upper Klamath Lake, his home waters. The fly is a variation of the popular Woolly Bugger. I’d seen this fly years ago, but found it again in Rickards Fly-Fishing Stillwaters for Trophy Trout (1997). It’s the…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Mrs. Haase. The Mrs. Haase is another Ray Bergman wet fly I found in Forgotten Flies by Paul Schmookler & Ingrid V. Sils. It is fly number 284 of 725 flies attributed to Bergman. Wow, that’s a lot of fly patterns!
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the McKenzie Caddis Wet Fly. This is the companion fly to last week’s TBT fly – the McKenzie Caddis Dry Fly. As I mentioned in last week’s post, I found these fly patterns from the Caddis Fly Shop in Eugene, OR probably in the 1980’s. These caddis flies…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Medallion Biot Wet Fly. I selected this fly to continue the theme of biot flies I presented in the Goose and Turkey Biot Flies post this week. The Medallion Biot Wet Fly is another fly by Shane Stalcup and can be tied in different sizes and colors to imitate a…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Stalcup CDC Loop Wing Emerger. This fly was the creation of Shane Stalcup, a talented and innovative fly tyer. The fly pattern sheet can be found HERE. I first learned of Stalcup’s flies in his book Mayflies “Top to Bottom” (2002). I thought it was interesting looking at the…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Walla-Walla, another Ray Bergman wet fly. The Walla-Walla can be found on Plate 9, page 254 of Ray Bergman’s book Trout (1938).
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Whirling Dun. The Whirling Dun can be found on Plate 9, page 254 of Ray Bergman’s book Trout (1938).
Winter is a great time for restocking and organizing your fly boxes. How many fly boxes do you carry? How do you organize them? It’s been too long and my fly boxes have seen some serious neglect the last few months. I fish over 100 days a year. How many over 100? I used to…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Mark Lain, another wet fly from Ray Bergman’s book Trout (1938). Since it’s Thanksgiving, I decided to find an old fly incorporating a turkey wing. It just seems fitting…
October Caddis have been flitting over the river and along the streamside brush the last few weeks. I believe these bugs are important to the fish and they sure seem to key on them at times. This is a perfect time to talk about October Caddis and their imitations. The October Caddis (Dicosmoecus), otherwise known as…
