…Best wishes for a Happy New Year. Thanks to all who have visited in the last eighteen months!!! Nadia, Michael, Ally ( The BEST gifts I ever received) and PT – at our traditional Chinese Christmas Eve. dinner… Josh and Ally… Greg, Nadia and...

While I am working on putting together a series of attractor patterns, I thought I would share some flies that fall into the attractor category which I have come across in my aquatic travels/ adventures. Four of these I use to imitate Caddis and the...

This particular fly has probably caught more fish for me, Michael and Ally – than ANY other attractor pattern that I have used through the years. I tie it on Daiichi 1560 Hooks, TMC 5262 and Mustad 3906B in sizes #10 -#18 ( scud hooks are a fine...

I am often asked how I transitioned into Fly Fishing. I remember NOW… “You BOYS wanna’ go fishing?  DIG for those worms!!! “…My Mother, the taskmaster… PT/TB

These are a few more fly patterns that I have been working on for this Springs’ fly fishing in the Eastern Sierras and, hopefully - beyond… This would be one of my ( and the kids) favorite spots to pull into, fishing upstream or downstream from this...