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My "Throw Back Thursday" fly this week the Silver Hilton The Silver Hilton is a classic summer steelhead pattern. Use it on the Deschutes, Umpqua, Santiam, Kalama, Willamette and many others up and down the West Coast all summer long. The fly was designed by Henry Hilton for the Klamath and...

Here you go!!

Terrible job with the head cement but you get the idea

My "Throw Back Thursday" fly this week is the Black Gordon I found this fly in one of my steelhead fly boxes and thought it would be a good candidate for a TBT Fly. The Black Gordon is a well-known steelhead fly pattern developed on the North Umpqua River in the 1930’s by Clarence Gordon, a...

I tie this without the hackle and on Silver lake here in WA you never know if your gonna catch a crappie, blue gill or a trout. The Baitfish Olive Congo Hair for the underwing is a great option too

My "Throw Back Thursday" fly of the week is the Kings River Caddis. Wayne "Buz" Buszek created this fly in the 1950's while fishing the Kings River and trying to match the caddis fly hatch that was taking place below Pine Flat Reservoir. . The success of the fly became well known during the...

My Throw-Back Thursday Pic is the Kalama Special: The Kalama Special was designed by Mooch Abrams of Portland OR. While it was intended as a fly for Cutthroats, It then became popular in the 1930’s and 1940’s as a summer run steelhead fly especially during the late summer. Renowned angler Mike...

McLeod Ugly- Developed in 1962 by Ken McLeod. For those of us that still fish the old school classics this is one of the top must haves to fish anywhere on the Pacific coast.

10:58 at night and I almost forgot. Here's my "Throw Back Thursday" fly this week Kaufmanns Coal Car The pattern for this fly, originated by Randall Kaufmann, came from the fine book by Dick Stewart and Farrow Allen, Flies for Steelhead. They write that Randall Kaufmann designed the Coal Car as...