Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Since it is Thanksgiving, my wife thought is appropriate this week’s TBT would be the Cates Turkey. I tied one years ago on Thanksgiving. It was developed by Jerry Cate in the 1960’s at Davis Lake for Callibaetis. I think I’ll have to try it next summer!
Hope you like it.
One of my favorite rivers while at Chochoy Mallin is fishing the Rio Trocoman with SET Fly Fishing. We fished the river last year and were introduced to willow worms for the first time. We arrived earlier this year, but the higher water and cooler temperatures meant we were too early for the hatch. Our…
I recently completed an order of ten LARGE saltwater streamer patterns for a customer to use for marlin and giant trevally fly fishing. These new-to-me BEAST Fleyes are not quick to tie and challenged my fly tying abilities. It’s the first fly I’ve ever tied in hand during my 55 year fly tying journey. I…
Seasons have definitely changed! I’m back to fly tying. It seems like it was just fall and I was fishing several days per week. We had close to two feet of snow in a couple of days and still have snow on the ground. All that is to say I haven’t been fishing for a while….
If you haven’t checked lately, I’ve added a few fly patterns. Not a tyer? That’s OK. Check out a pattern sheet or two. Not only will you find pictures of the fly pattern, I’m trying to include pictures of the real bugs the flies imitate. Use the fly pattern pictures when shopping at your local…
A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog entitled New to Fly Fishing? What Flies Should I Use? It was my way of suggesting a dozen dry flies to start filling your fly box. And for full disclosure, they were a list of DRY flies. Well, someone asked “what about NYMPHS”? Thanks for asking! So I…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday fly is Lee Clark’s Big Yellow Mayfly. Last week, I posted the Twisted Body Stone as a different technique of using 100% polypropylene to create a body to imitate larger flies. While the fly above was tied by Lee, I decided to tie up a Green Drake version and try…
