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.
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Buszek’s Kings River Caddis. I recently finished up a fly order for a customer that included a few of Buszek’s Kings River Caddis. After filling his order and tying a few for myself, I decided this fly would be a good candidate for this week’s TBT post. Buszek’s Kings…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Barr’s Meat Whistle TBT. I tied this fly recently for a customer and thought it a good candidate for my TBT post. John Barr started developing the Meat Whistle in 2002. He spent two years tweaking the fly and fishing it alongside his normal spinning rod jig. It…
I don’t know about you, but this is the time of year my days on the water are limited. The limiting factor is ME. Why? Many days the high temperatures hover around freezing! Even though fishing isn’t on the agenda every day, I’m still “fishing”. I have a winter list to check off. Here’s what’s on it:…
I completed tying all the flies we’ll be using in Chile. We leave in a couple of days and thought you’d enjoy the list of flies I’m taking to Patagonia. First of all, let me say all these flies is probably overkill, but hey, I’m a fly tyer! Lodges differ on whether they provide all…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Alec Jackson Spade – Purple. I posted two other TBT flies tied by Alec Jackson in recent posts – the Spade and Fancy Spade – Red. This Spade fly appears to be one of his variants in which he used all purple materials. As I wrote in…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Quigley Cripple, developed by Bob Quigley in the late 1970’s for Northern California’s Fall River. Seems like Northern California is the birthplace of several flies I like. Here is my Green Drake Quigley Cripple. As the story goes, Bob was fishing a Humpy and catching fish with…
