This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Lawson’s E-Z Caddis, developed by Mike Lawson from Last Chance, ID.
I bought this fly a several years ago in Maupin, OR for a fly fishing trip with friends on the Deschutes River.
I really liked the profile of the fly and the under and overwing made of a Zelon and partridge caught my eye.
I think I should tie some of these this winter and give them a try when caddis start hatching.
Enjoy…go fish!
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Sheep Creek Special. I found the fly was developed by George Biggs of Jerome, Idaho in the 1960’s where he fished it at Sheep Creek Reservoir on the Nevada/Idaho border. Some say the Sheep Creek Special imitates leeches is larger sizes and midges in smaller sizes. It might…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Blue Bottle, another Ray Bergman wet fly. I found the Blue Bottle on Plate 1, page 23 from Ray Bergman’s Trout, first published in 1938. Bergman’s book includes 15 colored plates to illustrate the dry and wet flies with a description of each fly in the back. It was…
Here we are back at the Madison River. We had some spectacular fishing in July (Fly Fishing the Madison River in 2020) during a caddis hatch and wanted to return for the legendary Baetis hatch, hoping for another wonderful experience. We’ve grown to love this Valley, not only for the fishing, but the beauty as…
Christmas in July? Yup. My wife and I just finished a couple of days on the Upper Columbia River fly fishing at Black Bear Lodge which is located about 10 miles from the US/Canadian border. We had heard about catching BIG rainbow trout on the Upper Columbia River using dry flies…and the fishing gods were…
Seasons have definitely changed! I’m back to fly tying. It seems like it was just fall and I was fishing several days per week. We had close to two feet of snow in a couple of days and still have snow on the ground. All that is to say I haven’t been fishing for a while….
Did you ever have one of those days? I did. The day began with me attempting to make another fly tying video. I thought. But the battery level was in the red. I tested my camera the other day preparing for my upcoming Zoom fly tying class this Thursday, on 1/21 at 5 pm PST….
