Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from RiverKeeper Flies!

Enjoy…go fish!
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from RiverKeeper Flies!

Enjoy…go fish!

This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Dennys Stillwater Nymph. As I thought about which fly to choose for a TBT Fly, this one came to mind. It seems appropriate as I’ve recently posted pictures on my RiverKeeper Flies Facebook page and the fly was front and center in this week’s Fly Fishing at Diamond Lake…

In mid-December, I wrote a post about Choosing a Fly Box. I still need to fill a fly box with BWO flies, so it’s timely for me to highlight a few important flies I plan to place in the fly box. I’ll provide some of my favorites to help you create your own BWO fly…

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 Benn’s Black Prince TBT. Benn’s Black Prince was created by John Benn. It’s one of the flies listed in John Shewey’s book Classic Steelhead Flies (2015). Benn was a famous fly tyer and angler in the late 1800s. He lived in the San Francisco Bay Area and ventured to the Eel…

This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is a Bob Jacklin Gray Drake. I found this fly when I walked into his fly shop last week. I stood in front of the fly bins and selected several I thought would make likely candidates for my TBT posts. I think I’m on a drake kick, since last…

This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Sylvester Nemes Partridge and Yellow and Fur Thorax soft hackle. Since I was in a soft hackle mood from tying a few Starling and Purple soft hackle flies, I decided to pull out a few books and find another soft hackle fly to tie.
john it was truly a pleasure seeing you on the Met three or four weeks ago with your wife, hope you and her have a great upcoming holiday and a very prosperous 2019. Look forward to seeing you next year. Dave
Hi John,
Gretchen & I hope you and Karen enjoyed a Merry Christmas and that 2019 is a great and prosperous year. We’ll see you in a few days. Take care & …
Tight Lines – (Gretchen &) Al Beatty
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and Karen. Have a great 2019