Tattered Fly - blog

Simms Wader Line Updated

2007-10-29T15:35:26Z

If you’re in the market for some new waders, now might be the perfect time to act. Simms has started shipping updated 2008 versions of some of their waders freeing retailers to offer discounts on the old models.

Simms is using GORE-TEX® Pro Shell now on the G3 Guide along with moving the seam to the front and back of the leg. The neoprene foot has been redesigned similar to the G4 foot as well…

Brown Drakes on Silver Creek

2007-06-18T19:47:51Z

Few hatches in Idaho match the excitement and madness that is the Brown Drake Hatch on Silver Creek. Anticipated by fly anglers for miles around, large browns and rainbows rise recklessly to the surface just after sunset during the first weeks of June each year.

Even though there wasn’t a single report yet that drakes had come off, I found myself making the long drive to Silver Creek two weeks ago hoping to catch the famed hatch and the fish it inspires. Several anglers were gearing up when I arrived with a few more standing along the bank laying claim to their piece of the creek…

Opening Day on Silver Creek - photo essay

2007-06-01T20:21:38Z

B-Run Steelhead on the South Fork Clearwater

2007-03-08T23:32:11Z

A good amount of my time each summer as a Boy Scout was spent at a certain alpine lake in Northern Utah. When the other scouts and I were not rolling boulders into the lake or earning merit badges, we were fishing. Using good ole plastic worms and a spin cast setup, our Scoutmaster would yell ‘SHAMU’ each time he would hook into a fish and after reeling in he would hold up the 6 or 7 inch monster trout. Funny as it was back then, calling a fish Shamu never seemed more appropriate than it did on steelhead caught this past weekend on the South Fork of the Clearwater near Grangeville, Idaho.

B-run steelhead of the Clearwater river are notorious for their tremendous size. Aside from the Skeena river system in British Columbia, few steelhead match the size of Clearwater B-runs in North America…

Photo Contest Winners Announced

2007-03-06T04:03:04Z

Tattered Fly’s First Annual Fly Fishing Photography contest was closed to entries at midnight on February 28th. The contest turned out to be quite popular and the quality and number of entries continues to amaze me. I have already received offers from individuals and companies wishing to pitch in for the prize package on next year’s photo contest.

I must say that I came away with a few pieces of inspiration and am amazed by how many fly fishers also engage in artistic endeavors. Modern science needs to do a study on the genetic linkage between the fly fishing gene and the artistic gene. I’m sure that it would be ground breaking stuff. But I digress…

The winning image really stood out as an amazing piece. The honorable mention was considerably harder and in the end I could not decide between two.

So it is without further ado that I announce the winners…