San Juan Worm. Yup, a worm is this week’s Throw Back Thursday fly from the archives.
Developed in the 1970’s by Jim Aubrey for the San Juan River in New Mexico, it’s accounted for many fish and worked so well, the “San Juan Shuffle” is outlawed on some rivers. The “Shuffle” is a technique where you dislodge bugs and WORMS by shuffling your feet upstream from fish and they drift down for the fish to eat. Yes, worms live on the river bottom. I’ve seen them when using a kick net.
I’ve had an opportunity in the last month to help with two volunteer activities by planting Spring Chinook in the Deschutes basin. It started with planting several thousand Spring Chinook fry. My wife and I were part of a group planting small fry in Lake Creek, a tributary of the Metolius, while others planted them…
Have you ever wondered if there’s a better method to manage two nymph rigs? If you follow my blog, you know I love to fish dry flies. I walk along the river searching for fish rising. When I do fish nymphs, I usually fish two nymphs. Most of the time I tie on about 18″…
Can you believe it’s the first of September? Summer has really flown by for me! I look forward to fly fishing in September and October because the weather usually begins to cool and insect activity picks up. It’s time to check the flies in my September fly boxes to make sure I am ready for…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Ray Bergman’s Watsons Fancy. It’s been a while since I featured a classic Ray Bergman fly. Watson’s Fancy is simple wet fly listed on Plate No.9, page 254 of Bergman’s Trout (1940 – fourth printing). As I’ve mentioned many times, I enjoy highlighting a Bergman wet fly because it forces…
Spring is here, the middle of April. What that tells me is some of my favorite insects will begin hatching in less than a month. We went to the river recently, once with fly rods in hand and another day to enjoy the river on a 5 mile hike. Both days were enjoyable and perhaps…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Wayne “Buz” Buszek Kings River Caddis. Here are a couple other images of flies tied by Buz my friend Wayne Luallen sent me. I never met Buz, but I wish I had. He must have been a great tyer. In 1970, the International Federation of Fly Fishers…
