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Category Archives: Trout Patterns By Season
Simple Starling Jigged Nymph Fly Tying Tutorial
Starling is an underutilized feather in the fly tying world. It is an absolutely phenomenal choice for smaller offerings that require a soft hackle collar. Starling feathers are made of soft barbules that pulsate much like partridge or grouse, but … Continue reading →
Posted in Fly Tying, Lower Willamette, McKenzie River, Middle Fork Willamette River fishing, Proven Fall Trout Patterns, Proven Spring Trout Patterns, Proven Summer Trout Patterns, Proven Winter Trout Patterns, Trout Fly Tying Videos, Trout Patterns By Season, Uncategorized
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Tagged BWO, Caddis, euro, Fly, hackle, jig, Olive, pupa, soft, spot, starling, swing, Tutorial, Tying
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Shorty Hopper: Fantastic Subtle Hopper Pattern
Grasshoppers become a staple in a trout’s diet in the late summer. Trout will often move several feet to pick up a hopper off the surface. This has given rise to the term “Hopper Season” referring to this late summer … Continue reading →
Posted in Fly Tying, Fly Tying Materials and Supplies, Proven Fall Trout Patterns, Proven Summer Trout Patterns, Trout Fly Tying Videos, Trout Patterns By Season, Uncategorized, Warmwater Fly Tying Videos
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Tagged cricket, dropper, dry, Dry Fly, Fly, foa, foam, grasshopper, hopper, hopper dropper, hopper season, season, Terrestrial, terrestrial season, trout, Tutorial, Tying
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Sloshed Ant: Jigged Sunken Ant Pattern for Keyed in Trout Late in the Summer
As summer drones on and comes to a close, terrestrials become more important than ever, and their importance does not stop on the surface. Sunken terrestrials are a fantastic searching fly this time of year. Until things really cool off, … Continue reading →
Posted in Central Oregon Fishing Report, Eastern Oregon, Fly Spotlight, Fly Tying Materials and Supplies, Fly Tying Tutorials, Oregon Fly Fishing Tips, Proven Fall Trout Patterns, Proven Summer Trout Patterns, Stillwater Fishing, Trout Fly Tying Videos, Trout Patterns By Season, Uncategorized
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Tagged ant, drown, drowned, euro, fulling, jig, jigged, Nymph, sink, sunk, sunken, Terrestrial, tungsten
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Simon’s Summer Searching Caddis
Anglers all over the world have fond memories of banner summer days with endless caddis dry fly eats. Caddis dries cast an appealing silhouette that trout can’t resist when they are keyed in on surface feeding in the warmer months. … Continue reading →
Posted in Entomology, Fly Tying, Fly Tying Materials and Supplies, Fly Tying Tutorials, Lower Willamette, McKenzie River, Middle Fork Willamette River fishing, Proven Fall Trout Patterns, Proven Summer Trout Patterns, Trout Fly Tying Videos, Uncategorized
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Tagged attractor, Caddis, CDC, cdc dub, dry, Dry Fly, dub, Fly, fulling mill, trout, Tutorial, Tying
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Hi-Vis Peacock Beetle: Versatile Summer Terrestrial Tying Tutorial
The doldrums of summer have arrived, things are hot, trout are ornery, and aquatic insect hatches are dwindling in the lower sections of our rivers. We are entering a transitionary period in terms of aquatic insect hatches. It is too … Continue reading →
Simon’s Jigged Simpleton Scud: A Great Option for Stillwater Venues and Spring Creeks
Scuds aren’t an important food source for trout for trout everywhere, but where they are on the menu, you better have a few options in your box. If you’re not familiar with scuds, they’re small freshwater crustaceans that make their … Continue reading →
Posted in Eastern Oregon, Entomology, Fly Spotlight, Fly Tying, Fly Tying Tutorials, Oregon High Lakes, Proven Fall Trout Patterns, Proven Spring Trout Patterns, Proven Summer Trout Patterns, Proven Winter Trout Patterns, Stillwater Fishing, Trout Fly Tying Videos, Uncategorized
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Tagged creek, Fly, fulling, gammarus, guide, infected, jigged, mill, scud, simple, stillwater, style, tailwater, Tutorial
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New Solarez Top Coat 77 Gloss: UV Resin Specifically for Coating Your Summer Foam Terrestrials
It is about that time of year where much of what we are throwing is constructed from foam. Terrestrial season is upon us, in the last 15-20 years, the commercial fly scene has seen a major shift in the materials … Continue reading →
Posted in Fly Fishing Gear Review, Fly Tying, Fly Tying Materials and Supplies, McKenzie River, Middle Fork Willamette River fishing, Proven Summer Trout Patterns, Trout Patterns By Season, Uncategorized
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Tagged 77, buoyant, coat, cricket, float, Fly, foam, gloss, material, new, protect, resin, safe, solarez, Terrestrial, top, Tying, uv, uv resin
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Jigged Low Tide Pheasant Tail: A Great Nymph for the Dog Days of Summer
The dog days of summer can be a difficult time to fish. Despite the favorable weather for us, trout start to get a bit unhappy during the peak of summer. Their feeding can be sporadic, isolated to the cooler, shadier … Continue reading →
Posted in Fly Tying, Fly Tying Materials and Supplies, Fly Tying Tutorials, McKenzie River, Middle Fork Willamette River fishing, Oregon Fly Fishing Tips, Proven Summer Trout Patterns, Trout Fly Tying Videos, Trout Patterns By Season, Uncategorized
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Tagged attractor, CDC, days, dropper, dry, dry dropper, Fly, fly fishing, fly tying, Instructional, McKenzie River, Middle fork Willamette River, Nymph, pheasant, pheasant tail, summer, taik, trout, variant
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Summer Fly Spotlight: Fulling Mill’s Burkus’ Bareback Rider Gold Stone
Golden Stoneflies are one of the most important large insects that hatch here in the Western US. This bug is responsible for big, explosive dry fly eats in the summer. It is also partially responsible for the adoption of large … Continue reading →
Posted in Aquatic Insect Hatches, Entomology, Fly Fishing Gear Review, Fly Spotlight, Lower Willamette, McKenzie River, Middle Fork Willamette River fishing, Proven Summer Trout Patterns, Trout Patterns By Season, Uncategorized
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Tagged Bare, Burkus, dry-dropper, Fly Spotlight, fulling mill, Gold, golden, golden stone, golden stonefly, McKenzie River, Middle fork Willamette River, mill, Rider, Spotlight, Stone
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Summer Fly Spotlight: Fulling Mill’s Tactical Light Cahill Parachute
There are a few insects that are synonymous with summer dry fly fishing in the west. If we narrow it down to the insect order of Ephemeroptera, which envelops our beloved mayflies, there is one that stands out. Of the … Continue reading →
Posted in Aquatic Insect Hatches, Entomology, Fishing Porn, Fishing Reports, Fly Fishing Gear Review, Fly Spotlight, Fly Tying Materials and Supplies, Lower Willamette, McKenzie River, Middle Fork Willamette River fishing, North Umpqua River Fishing Reports, Oregon Fly Fishing Tips, Proven Summer Trout Patterns, Trout Patterns By Season, Uncategorized
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Tagged cahill, dun, evening, Light, Mayfly, morning, oed, pale, pale evening dun, pale morning dun, pmd, sulphur, tactical
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Driftless Cricket V2 Dry Fly Tying Tutorial
Crickets are an often overlooked insect under the more broad “terrestrial” umbrella of insects. When people thing of terrestrial season, hoppers are typically the first insect that comes to mind. Grasshoppers are typically followed by beetles and ants in terms … Continue reading →
Posted in Entomology, Fly Tying, Fly Tying Materials and Supplies, Fly Tying Tutorials, Lower Willamette, McKenzie River, Middle Fork Willamette River fishing, Oregon Fly Fishing Tips, Patterns By, Proven Summer Trout Patterns, Trout Fly Tying Videos, Trout Patterns By Season, Uncategorized
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Tagged coat, cricket, driftless, dry, fishing, Fly, fly fishing, gloss, solarez, Terrestrial, top, top coat gloss, Tying
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Extended Body Golden Stonefly: Fly Tying Tutorial
Golden Stoneflies are arguably the most important summer stonefly in the Western United States. This large insect hatches consistently across much of the West, and provides steady fishing with large attractors for most of the summer. In the Western United … Continue reading →
Posted in Aquatic Insect Hatches, Entomology, Fly Tying, Fly Tying Materials and Supplies, Fly Tying Tutorials, Lower Willamette, McKenzie River, Middle Fork Willamette River fishing, Oregon Fly Fishing Tips, Proven Summer Trout Patterns, Trout Fly Tying Videos, Trout Patterns By Season, Uncategorized
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Tagged chubby, dry, dry dropper, Dry Fly, fishing, Fly, fly tying, fold stonefly, Gold, Gold STone, golden, golden stone, golden stonefly, hatch, Instructional, match, Match The Hatch, McKenzie River, Middle fork Willamette River, Stone, stonefly
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Early July Fishing Report
Despite our subpar winter, we have made it through several popular weekends without any serious local fire flare ups. We have our fingers crossed that we can make it through this holiday weekend without any new fires. Fishing has been … Continue reading →
Posted in Fishing Reports, Lower Willamette, McKenzie River, Middle Fork Willamette River fishing, Proven Summer Trout Patterns, Trout Patterns By Season, Uncategorized
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Tagged dry dropper, Dry Fly, fishing report, Gold STone, Instructional, july, Mckenzie, McKenzie River, Oregon, Oregon Fly Fishing, pmd, Willamette
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Jigged Western Green Drake Nymph
Green Drakes are one of the most famed mayflies in the world. Here in the US, the insects can be broken into two broad categories: Eastern and Western Green Drakes. Although both are large green mayflies, they belong to entirely … Continue reading →
Posted in Aquatic Insect Hatches, Entomology, Fly Tying, Fly Tying Materials and Supplies, Fly Tying Tutorials, McKenzie River, Middle Fork Willamette River fishing, Proven Spring Trout Patterns, Proven Summer Trout Patterns, Trout Fly Tying Videos, Trout Patterns By Season, Uncategorized
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Tagged drake, drunella, drunella grandis, fishing, fishing report, fly tying, grandis, green, Instructional, McKenzie River, Middle fork Willamette River, Nymph, summer, Tying, western, western green drake
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Simple and Effective Jigged Yellow Sally Nymph for your Summer Dry-Dropper Setup
Yellow Sallies are a small, yet important summer bug in the Western US. They are often overlooked as other warm weather stoneflies are much larger like Salmonflies, Skwalas, Gold Stones, Shortwing Stones, Etc. These bugs come in a yellow, more … Continue reading →
Posted in Aquatic Insect Hatches, Entomology, Fly Tying, Fly Tying Materials and Supplies, Fly Tying Tutorials, Lower Willamette, McKenzie River, Middle Fork Willamette River fishing, Proven Summer Trout Patterns, Trout Fly Tying Videos, Trout Patterns By Season, Uncategorized
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Tagged dropper, euro, fly fishing, fly tying, jigged, little, Little Yellow Sally, McKenzie River, Middle fork Willamette River, Nymph, sally, Sally Nmyph, Tying, yellow, yellow sally, Yellow Sally Nymph
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