July 4, 2010Nine days ago I fished Montana's Gallatin River when it was a foot higher and a lot browner than this (I didn't get a photo that day). Yesterday the water was a bit lower and yet--as you can see--still raging...
after examining the real scud it occurred to me most imitations are a bit too cylindrical--that the real scud has some vertical loft to the length of the body. So I began to think about ways to make the body taller but n...
I live in Western Montana. I don't have much opportunity for warm water fishing. I wish I did. These would be well suited to fly rod smallmouth bass fishing I think.They're also remarkably effective for trout. I cast t...
First published in Rod and Reel: 2/15/1985Roadkill StreamersOf the 364 four pound (or larger) trout painted on the walls of DanBailey's Fly Shop in Livingston Montana:7% were taken on small wet flies.12% were t...
There was a damp, early-morning fog at Ed and Helen Nelson's Spring Creek Ranch, a few miles south and across the river from Armstrong Spring Creek, near Livingston, Montana. This was to be the first of three guiding day...
Fly Tyer, Spring 1988Fast Sinking Streamers"Aren't there any good sculpin patterns that don't have the deer hair head," I asked? "You bet," said George Kelly. "I've got one I call the Foxy Lady and I really believe in i...
Snell a hook with backing. Put a needle in the vise horizontally. Skewer the needle into the back end of the swivel. Snag a rubber band into the bend of the hook. Snag the other end of the rubber band around the back end...
