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Mopster-tail Sparrow

Older graphite rods been a recent interest of mine, after my daughter and I received a couple of rods from a couple of grandfathers. With that perspective, I’d say the Sage RPL is a lot faster than some other classic graphite, and it can be more challenging than I’d remembered. Watching my...

Not quite in the vise. Maybe gonna need a bigger hook, more phez… Mop Sculpin with Slushy, 4-3/8”, on musa.Every fly gets mop and pheasant rump from now on.

Eclipse clouds, dust storm, in Lake County OR.

The third-greatest minds of our generation are in Bozeman engineering boots to self destruct on precision timelines…. Some really excellent fish, though!

When my father said it was an art that ended at two o'clock, he often added, "closer to ten than to two," meaning that the rod should be taken back only slightly farther than overhead (straight overhead being twelve o'clock). Perhaps even more true with modern rods than with Norman Maclean’s...

Remnants of Hurricane Hillary and Borah Peak, Custer County ID, from a trip last month.

In the big caddis hatches that seem to peak about 4th of July, right at dark the pupae are swimming up and the egg layers are diving down, all at the same time. I’ve read somewhere that the egg layers target broken water as easier to dive into, and it can be tricky to get a clean swing in faster...

Sparkle and Iris. I don’t run deer hair on them very much. Usually fish them damp as a dropper.

I just tried to eat the leggy one with the legs.

I like the sparkle pupa a bunch — but I think a lot of commercial versions are too heavily dressed, personally. I don't have the lafontaine book, either, but periodically think I should get it. Maybe sort of a mad genius. I dig those mop flies, although haven’t fished any yet. Iris caddis...

Sage Rat, size 6 (Edit #1 for floss body.)

They say Jerry Jeff Walker took him to Key West in 1971, from Nashville, to busk on the street. In 1973 he was living and writing in Tom McGuane’s barn in Livingstone, and they made a tarpon fishing movie with Richard Brautigan and Jim Harrison later that year. Rancho Deluxe (…Ebert: I don't...

Excellent! I learned a bunch more about these bugs this week — especially on the presentation side — and that 3-fly combo has me itchy to get back on the water. Good stuff!

I think these are shortwing stones — mainly nocturnal so the cases show up a lot more than the adults. But they definitely get eaten. http://oregonflyfishingblog.com/2009/08/14/the-strange-case-of-the-mystery-hatch/

Ouch — everything slows way down for a second when a rod breaks. Worse if it’s a special one. Sorry! My guess is that rods built as single pieces (which are then cut for ferrules) are probably harder to match on repair than rods with integral ‘tip-over’ joints where each section is built on its...

Nice report, man! Whack those stockers! I haven’t been up to Harriet in many years but I also recall reports of big browns. That inlet area looked fishy to me. I’ll bet there are some good opportunities coming up for bigger fish as we get into the fall. Is there a spawning run up the river...

Also, Meat Headed Termite

Ten-Penny Ant