This month's fly is the Peacock Caddis. I first saw this pattern in a book by Al and Gretchen Beatty called Rotary Fly Tying Techniques. Al told a great fishing story about the fly’s success that hooked me into trying...
The Henryville Special is one of the most effective flies for matching the spring green caddis hatches. The first caddis of the season are green and chunky in the larger sizes 12 – 14. This fly can also be retrieved...
This month’s fly, the Shufelt Special, is named after its creator Robert Shufelt of Greenville, Maine. This fly is on my top five streamer list. As some of you may know I have a bias toward any streamer with large...
The fly of the month for September is the Griffith’s Gnat .The Griffith’s Gnat was first created and tied by Bob Summers of Michigan. George Griffith, who founded Trout Unlimited in 1960, and Bob fished together often so it was named...
The Parmachenee Wulff is a Wulff style version of the wet fly of the same name. This fly was created by Henry Wells and John Danforth of Parmachenee Lake, Maine in 1876. The fly was originally tied...
I remember as a boy catching my biggest trout on a Doodlebug. I had a large beaver bog near my house and would fish it regularly. It had a long dam that I would walk out along and perch...
This month’s fly is the Quill Gordon. The Quill Gordon was created by Theodore Gordon from the Catskill region of New York. Gordon is considered the father of dry fly fishing in America. The Quill Gordon was one of the...
This month’s featured fly is the Cased Caddis. The Cased Caddis was originated by Gary LaFontaine and written about in his book “Caddisflies”. Have you ever been wading in one of our rivers in late spring and noticed those inch-long...
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