Tag: stoneflies

"Fools define hatches, so don't expect us to tell you there will be a great stonefly hatch on Tuesday at noon. As you'll soon discover, it isn't the hatch that offers the most exciting part of a stonefly event. Through the decades there have been trends that we've noticed while chasing great fly fishing during the various stonefly hatch windows. From the...

MIDCURRENT SAT DOWN with James Babb, the longtime editor of Gray’s Sporting Journal and author of Crosscurrents: A Fly Fisher’s Progress; River Music: A Fly Fisher’s Four Seasons; and Fly-Fishin’ Fool: The Adventures, Misadventures, and Outright Idiocies of a Compulsive Angler, to discuss friends, family, fly patterns, fly tying, and a life spent on...

Rich Strolis demonstrates how to tie his Busted Stone pattern, which he notes will work just about anywhere fish feed on stoneflies. Hook: TMC 2302, Size 10-4 Thread: UTC 140 Color to Match Underbody: Hare-Tron Dub Over-Body: 2mm Foam Underwing: Z-Lon, Poly Yarn, or Any Synthetic. Over-Wing: Deer Hair Legs: Medium Round Rubber Head: Foam "The busted stone...