A Grey Hackle Peacock is this week’s Throw Back Thursday fly. An old one I found in one of my vintage fly wallets. Notice the leader tied into the fly. We don’t tie them like that anymore. Like I said – OLD. A wet fly originated in the 1700’s. Have any in your fly box?
I thought I’d share a few more flies from the vise this week. I finished another fly order for a customer planning to fish the upcoming Salmonfly and Golden Stone hatch. They’ll begin showing themselves in late April and early May. In addition, you’ll find a link below to my recent YouTube videos. This pile…
What a difference a year makes. Who would have thought we’d have spring fly fishing in February? I thought I had a lot more time to tie flies for my fly box and provider boxes. Last year by now, much of the snow that had fallen in December and January was melting. But this year…
Last week I talked about several flies in my Filling Customer Fly Orders post including the Heindl and detailed images of the Hemingway Caddis.. I hope you saw them. Tying customer flies is about all I’m doing while waiting to get back out on the water. This week I continued to tie a variety of flies for…
Over the years, I’ve watched my wife Karen find her place in fly fishing — not just as an angler, but as a mentor and leader. One of the most meaningful ways she’s given back is through her work with Casting for Recovery (CfR), where she helps women find healing, confidence, and joy through fly…
Thanksgiving is only a few days away, which means winter is right around the corner. Do you know what that means? Blue Wing Olives will be the mayflies I plan to imitate. Gone are the bigger mayflies. What will get me through the next few months are hatches of BWO’s. So are you ready for…
I’ve been reviewing some of my previous blog posts and found one entitled Lessons Learned from our Fly Fishing Road Trip (from 2017). Since we recently returned from our last trip, I thought it was timely to update the list and provide a little more information from our most recent trip to Idaho and Montana….
If you look closely, the lower fly uses grizzly hackle. The old black and white hackle has a gray cast to it.
John
Where is the gray grizzly hackle?