Favorite Throw Back Thursday Flies for 2019

This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Polly Rosborough’s Fledermouse Nymph. I recently had a customer request several of these flies and thought it would be a good candidate for a TBT post. Here is a close-up of the nymph. Ernest H. “Polly” Rosborough (1902 – 1997) lived in Chiloquin, Oregon and his home river…

It’s late October and I found myself sitting along the river a few days ago and reflected how grateful I was to fish the river as much as I do. Many of the fall leaves are fading or being blown away from the wind. And the atmospheric river will be here in a couple of…

I’ve been spending a lot of time at the vise trying to complete fly orders and tying flies for our upcoming trip to Argentina. I recently purchased some hooks to tie customer flies because I was out of them. I received them in the mail a couple days ago and smiled at the hook size…

I continue to work on fly tying orders and head to the river to try my luck. Fishing has been a slow for me, which is normal in April. It’s one of the reasons I wrote If I Only Had Two Flies last week. I was reminiscing about hatches I’m looking forward to rising fish….