Today’s Throw Back Thursday fly is the Renegade, an attractor fly developed in 1928 by Taylor “Beartracks” Williams. It’s said the original fly had all white hackle and was changed to brown/white when “Beartracks” moved to Sun Valley.
Another story states George Herter claimed it was an English fly pattern named the Marryat, tied by Mrs Edith Cox in the late 1800s and named for George Marryat.
Whatever the truth is, it’s still an effective fly, although forgotten by many.
I’ve been at the fly tying desk lately working hard filling customer fly orders as well as the provider box. I thought this week’s post would highlight a few flies that have been coming off my vise. Some of the popular requests lately have been Clark’s Lady Stone, Improved Sparkle Dun – PMD, Hemingway Caddis,…
I’ve been tying a lot of caddis fly patterns lately, specifically Iris Caddis. I’m working on filling the caddis provider box that will include Iris Caddis and X Caddis in amber, tan, and olive. Here is a picture of the provider box I’m working on. There are 1 1/2 dozen flies in each slot…a total…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Stalcup’s CDC Parachute Dun. Stalcup’s CDC Parachute Dun is another example of Shane’s creative mind. I don’t know if he was the first to utilize CDC as parachute hackle, but it’s very creative technique of tying a parachute fly. Many of his fly patterns are tied with biots…
On two of our days at Rumbo Patagon, we ended up fly fishing the Rio Penitente in southern Chile. This was a terrific river to walk and wade as we fished for Brown trout. As you can tell from the image above, the river flows through a wide valley, which made it quite easy to…
Another year. My how time flies. That’s right, RiverKeeper Flies quietly celebrated another milestone earlier this month, turning 9 years old! Website RiverKeeper Flies began in early 2014 when I first learned about websites and published my initial post on March 5, 2014. I wasn’t sure where this journey would take me. Initially, I thought…
I’m packing the car and heading to the 2018 NW Expo in a couple of days. Besides being a Demonstration Tyer on Friday and Saturday, I’ll be teaching a Contemporary Soft Hackle class on Friday afternoon. You may have read last week’s post Volunteer Activities and Fly Tying were I talked about helping some of…
