While sitting at the vise today, I decided to celebrate the 4th of July. Here’s what popped out the jaws.

While sitting at the vise today, I decided to celebrate the 4th of July. Here’s what popped out the jaws.


This week’s Throw Back Thursday post is a new-to-me book entitled Brook and River Trouting. I recently purchased this hard-copy book through eBay. Brook and River Trouting was written by Harfield H. Edmonds and Norman N. Lee in 1916.

I wrote about the Cascades Stone a few years ago, but have seen them on the river recently and thought it was time to highlight this seldom seen hatch by fly fishers. It’s actually called the Doroneuria baumanni, a cousin of the Golden Stone. But I’m getting ahead of myself. When we first noticed this…

This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Purple Haze TBT. A customer asked me to tie up a dozen Purple Haze flies for him and I needed a fly for this week’s TBT post. I thought it was perfect timing! This is my variation of the original.

Fly fishing the Madison River was the next stop on this year’s fly fishing road trip. I share our experience with the fish, bugs, and effective flies.

This is a Deschutes River steelhead picture from my fishing trip last week. Here is another Recent Updates post to highlight additions you may have missed. I’ve added an About Me page. Added a few new Fly Patterns: Updated the Resources tab with the following items: If you are on Facebook, check out and LIKE my RiverKeeper Flies page. I’ve continued my “Throw…

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from RiverKeeper Flies! Enjoy…go fish!
John,
I find the representation of the colors of our flag to be inspiring and beautiful in your hands. I suspect that patriotic fish everywhere would be similarly attracted to this fly. It is a shame that it is too beautiful to fish with, in my humble opinion. I hope you had a great Fourth of July. I enjoy the weekly RiverKeeper Flies and your other posts.
Thanks.
Jerry
Thanks for your nice comment! Pleased you like the July 4th fly as well as RiverKeeper Flies!
John