Fly fishing and more

Patagonia as we know wasn't always a fly fisherman's paradise. Just like New Zealand , Patagonia had no native trout or salmon so th...

 This lime body Royal Humpy is waiting for the sign to travel to an artist to get a portrait painted. Recently someone asked about the Humpy...

This is a variation on the  Delaware Adams , the 'sunrise' Delaware Adams

" Irresistible ", that's what a client of Joe Messinger Sr. said about this fly after his successful fishing trip in Canada wh...

Along the years the hackle used for the popular Catskill dry fly called the Light Cahill went more cream coloured but I think it looks nice...

Did some tying together with my little man. I tied a few Alien Bugs and an Able Mable , Ed van Put's signature fly using the materials ...

  Jack Dennis ' signature fly the Royal Humpy: "It was 1968 when I decided to marry the Humpy and the Royal Wulff at the urging of ...

Three Humpy 's ready to take off to a place far far away 🚀 And a comment by Jack Dennis

This Coffin Fly (Eastern green drake spinner) is a serious big bug 😳 Here is one tied by Winnie Dette . The real thing

Martin Joergensen wrote this elaborate article about the grizzly hackle . All you need to know about the grizzly hackle and more.

We all probably have seen this footage from the BBC Blue Planet II . It's still impressive and scary at the same time. Now book a trip a...

This is the TMG (Teal, Macaw & Ginger), a Catskill style dry fly I came up. Wings: Teal flank feathers bunched & split Body: Macaw q...

Recently acquired a few no name used vintage capes like this nice ginger cape. Still enough hackles for a size 12 Light Cahill. Love the gla...

I love history that has a link to fly fishing. These Penn prints are reprints of old 16th, 17th and 18th Century maps of famous cartographer...

Craig Mathews ' reaction about the Alien Bug tells the story... 😁  

I've  seen a black bear in Montana  only once while I was fishing a mountain lake in a float tube .  Knowing how to use a bear spray whe...

The Floating Fly is a series of articles in one format about fishing with dry flies by various fishermen (not persé fly fishing authors 😉)...

From Mike Valla's book ' The Founding Flies '. We've never corresponded nor met but surely we would have had a great time ta...

Was watching a  video by the Jensens and saw this close up of a March Brown dun on the water. Look how the dun floats with the abdomen ang...

Adams with wings from a vintage Darbee grizzly hen cape giving the wings a more broader & rounder profile. Vintage Mustad 94840 size 12 ...

There have been several podcasts with Cameron, but this one is the most elaborate (and longest) one so far. Cameron started his blog The Fib...

A short but very striking clip about why Tom Dorsey (together with his brother in law Thomas Maxwell ) of Thomas & Thomas started to bu...