Fly Tying

My favorite brownie fly, works well in California and the big browns back east in the fall

My favorite trout fly, size 18 to size 8 - simple and effective, I call it a Cracker

Mylar tinsel underbody, white glo-bug-yarn veil, with hollow ribbing in chartreuse or green, purple, etc.

White yarn is cut twice as long as the hook, tyed in the middle, yarn forward of hook eye is then pulled backwards, and secured

fly box full of my favorite flies for big fall brown trout and steelhead

Good to Go

California Golden Trout eating a Cracker

Hungry Little Trout

A feisty rainbow trout

Simple quick to tye flies are my favorites to fish with

nice brown trout with a Cracker fly in its mouth

Nice fly, nice trout, nice silk fly line, and my favorite rod and reel

My work desk - click for larger image

Fly box full of generic nymphs

I have over 40 fly boxes, filled and ready for on stream action

fly box full of midge patterns

Midges

fly box with houseflies

Box O Flies

Generic stillwater and lake flies

Lakes and stillwater flies

Wheatley fly boxes full of dry flies

Nice boxes full of dry flies

beautiful wooden fly box with assorted fishing flies

Dragonfly, damselfly and mayfly nymphs

another fly box full of flies

Pretty Flies

Letter from Oregon Governor Kitzhaber

A nice letter from the Governor of Oregon

Governor Kitzhaber was presented with a box of my flies during a solar project dedication
(Chet Farris was the CEO of Siemens Solar Industries at the time)

Hardy Angel fly reel with a realistic red spider

I love my Hardy Angel fly reel, a gift from House of Hardy, for using my spider in their advertising

Damselfly nymph

Damselfly Nymph

May Fly Nymph

Mayfly Nymph

scuds

Trout Candy - Scuds - Freshwater shrimp

caddis pupa

Caddis Pupas - Oliver Edwards style

Cased Caddis tyed on weighted jig hooks

Peeking Cased Caddis Flies

midge pupes work well in the Sierra

Midge - works great in the sierra

golden stoneflies, worked great in Chile as well as the Eastern Sierra in fall
A favorite fly fall fall fly fishing on the East Walker River in the eastern sierra

Golden Stoneflies work well in the Sierra and Patagonia, especially in the fall

golden stonefly nymph

Stonefly Nymph

Realistic Fly Tying

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