The Picket Pin was created by Jack Boehme of Missoula, Montana in the early 1900’s. It was named after a gopher-like animal of the western prairies whose tail hair was used for the wing. We now use gray squirrel tail...
The zebra midge is this month’s fly. The midge insect is perhaps one of the most important food sources for trout and salmon. This small insect is a member of Diptera family and is present in the water 365 days...
This month’s fly is the Turck’s Tarantula. The Turck’s was created by a guide from Jackson Hole, Wyoming named Guy Turck. I first used this pattern 15 years ago when I started guiding. I remember exploring the pools of the...
This month’s fly is the E/C Cutter Caddis. E/C stands for emergent/cripple and as you can see from the photo it is quite differently constructed than most hair wing caddis. It was created by Ralph Cutter who put a lot...
This month, there are two flies, but I will talk more about an insect than a fly. The insect is a green caddis called a Rhyacophila, but we just refer to it as a Green Rock Worm. This is the...
This month’s feature fly is the Red Fox Squirrel nymph. The “squirrel” nymph was created over 40 years ago by Dave Whitlock. It is what we call a suggestive pattern, that is, it doesn’t imitate anything totally, but a lot...
The prince is possibly the most effective and widely used attractor nymph in the world. When a new dubbing material called Ice-dub from Hareline was introduced, Mike Mercier from The Fly Shop in California knew he had to use...
This month’s fly was created many years ago by a long time resident of Upper Dam, Wes Miller. Like many flies, it was developed to copy something observed in nature and tinkered with over time to get the final product....
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