Golden Butterfly

This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is John Barr’s Bouface Streamer. This is another fly I found in the book entitled Barr Flies (2007). I’ve been tying Dolly Llama streamers and Barr’s Bouface was very similar to that fly. The Bouface is featured in chapter 19 and includes detailed tying instructions. Originally tied as a…

I was invited to speak about my home waters, the Metolius River on the Destination Angler podcast hosted by Steve Haigh recently. I thought I should create a post here on RiverKeeper Flies to share much of the information, especially my favorite images of the river, the fish, the bugs, and the flies. I’ll even…

I have a friend who reached out a few weeks ago with an interesting question. He was planning to have his knee replaced and was hoping to use some of the recovery time to organize his flies. The problem…how to identify the flies. I don’t know if you are familiar with Google Lens, but in…

The first week of November is over already. Where has the time gone? As I wrote in my Seasons Change post recently, the first of November is a time when I begin to tie more flies as fishing wanes. Yes, I continue to fish during the winter months, but the major dry fly action has…

We returned recently from another wonderful Patagonia trip, beginning with SET Fly Fishing and ending the trip fishing with El Encuentro Fly Fishing in Argentina. I’ll share our experience at the three lodges they offer. If you check the El Encuentro website, they offer 3 different programs: We’ve been fortunate to fly fish in Argentina…