Year in Review at RiverKeeper Flies

I hope you had a wonderful 2025, full of memories and experiences that make you smile when you think about them. We sure did! I like to reflect at year-end about what happened on RiverKeeper Flies and share with you a few thoughts on this year in review post.

Yes, this will be a memory for us from Wyoming.

You may have noticed I stopped posting every week like I used to. Mostly because we have been travelling so much. It was difficult in Chile and Argentina while on our fly fishing trip to find time to create posts while enjoying the experience of new waters and sights.

You might recall I keep track of the flies I tie. This year, the grand total is approaching 1,079 with a couple more days to go until the new year. The total includes flies I use, donate to Casting for Recovery, give away, and tie for my customer orders. I’d like to give a special “thank you” to my customers who purchased my flies. I hope they created wonderful memories for you.

I like to include a few statistics about RiverKeeper Flies for 2025, namely for me. I can go back each year and check my progress.

• Page views – 188,309 (average of 15,692 per month)
• Number of sessions – 95,387 (average of 7,949 per month)

My most viewed posts in 2025 were:

• Preparing for October Caddis
• The Perfect Fishing Net
• Fly Fishing Idaho’s Kelly Creek and North Fork Clearwater River
• Fly Fishing the Green River below Fontenelle Reservoir
• Using Wood Duck, Mallard, and Teal Feathers for Fly Tying

I created 9 new videos for my RiverKeeper Flies YouTube channel this year. Here are the three most popular videos I published in 2025.

We continued our fly fishing road trips this year, beginning in January with our Patagonia trip. The first stop was in Chile at Coyhaique River Lodge with the Urrejola brothers.

We first visited Patagonia and Coyhaique in 2007 when their operation was named Rumbo Patagon. Fast forward to 2024 and we fished with Rumbo again, but this time at their new lodge in Puerto Natales. We didn’t see the brothers there as they stayed in Coyhaique, but we returned to Coyhaique for a reunion in 2025 and it was great visiting them after 18 years.

These are the posts with links I wrote about our experience in Chile:

• Fly Fishing with Coyhaique River Lodge
• Fly Fishing the Nirehuao River with Coyhaique River Lodge
• Images from Chile
• Fly Fishing at Lago Pascua with Coyhaique River Lodge
• Fly Fishing the Upper Rio Simpson with Coyhaique River Lodge

Here are a couple images showing the diversity of places we fished and a few fish caught during our week.

We returned to Argentina via boat and bus for the second half of our Patagonia trip, fishing with SET Fly Fishing again. Here are the links to posts, followed with a few of my favorite images.

• Fish Hunting at Casa de Campo with SET Fly Fishing
• Fly Fishing the Rio Calfiquitra with SET Fly Fishing
• Fly Fishing the Rio Malalco with SET Fly Fishing
• Fly Fishing the Rio Alumine with SET Fly Fishing
• Fly Fishing at Trocoman House with SET Fly Fishing
• Fly Fishing the Rio Codihue with SET Fly Fishing

We continued our annual summer fly fishing road trips with the first stop on the upper Columbia River at Black Bear Lodge.

If you are a regular at RiverKeeper Flies, you know how much we like fishing the Green Drake hatch. This unique fishery allows us to fish with dry flies in 105,000 to 115,000 cfs of water!

Those drakes rise from the bottom as deep as 90 feet to hatch and tempt large Rainbows…yes, LARGE Rainbows! This one was 25 inches…ON A DRY FLY!!!

Here are a couple more beauties taken with Green Drake dry flies.

Reluctantly, we left the Upper Columbia and continued to the Madison, stopping to fish the Clark Fork and Beaverhead rivers along the way. Eventually, we fished the Yellowstone River, and drove through Teton National Park on our way to the Green River, WY.

• Fly Fishing the Clark Fork and Beaverhead Rivers
• Fly Fishing the Madison River
• Fly Fishing the Yellowstone River

I enjoy taking my Nikon camera and lenses with me and found myself taking many more images while on the water, especially when the fish weren’t rising! My observation skills have increased, and I can capture insects floating in eddies along with other scenery. I can’t begin to tell you how difficult it is to capture insects floating downstream or flying off the water!

I’ve enjoyed taking images of the flies I tie as well and sharing them with you.

Wildlife

I would be remiss if I didn’t include a few images from my home waters, the Metolius.

I wanted to mention how much we enjoyed our guides this year. We don’t use a lot of guides, but when fishing specific fisheries, they may be the only way to gain access.

Here are a few of our guides from that helped us make our 2025 memories.

Lastly, I’m grateful to all of you who continue to read these posts and offer a Comment on occasion.

What’s your favorite RiverKeeper Flies image from 2025?

Wishing you a prosperous and happy new year!

Enjoy…go fish!