During last year's National Fly Fishing Championship (2018) in Bend, OR, callibaetis mayflies were a prominent hatch we needed to be prepared for at several of the lakes. I had been playing around…

A while back Tim Cammisa of Trout and Feather asked if I would like to contribute a guest fly tying tutorial for his extremely popular youtube channel. I of course said yes. I thought a bit about w…

During fall through spring, egg flies are a reliable trout tempting pattern. If you have ever seen underwater video of trout or salmon spawning, you'll notice there are often plenty of eggs which…

The Mop Fly has gotten a lot of attention during the last several years but it has been making its way around the competition circuit for a while longer. I was first introduced to the Mop back…

If you look back at my fly tutorials featured in this blog, you’ll likely observe that most of the patterns I’ve shared do not explicitly fit into the imitative mold that we fly anglers often p…