My kebari swap recap post is live on Tenkara Angler! Thanks again to Mike for letting me host the swap this year.

I am hosting Tenkara Angler’s 2025 Fall Kebari Swap. If you are into that sort of thing, sign up and send some flies in by October 15. Send in 12 flies and get 12 back. I’m trying to decide between tying flymphs, peacock futsus, squirrel and gingers, or maybe change it up and do dry…

I wrote a post over at Tenkara Angler on techniques for sizing down oversized soft hackles for smaller hooks. Go take a look!

I wanted to tie some egg patterns to fish myself and to gift to some friends, so I stopped by a fly shop in Manhattan to see if they had any materials. They had yellow and orange, so I picked some up. They didn’t have pink though, so I thought I’d get creative and try…

When I went to pick up our turkey from Hemlock Hill Farm this year, I noticed a turkey feather on the ground. I couldn’t resist tying a couple flies with it. The barbs and afterfeathers provided nice bodies and tails for these dry flies and midges. Sizes 16 and 18. Happy Thanksgiving!

I mentioned last week that I brought back some deer and squirrel hair from animals I bagged 16 or 17 years ago. I tried tying some flies with them tonight. I tied five streamers with squirrel tail and varies bodies and throats, all on size 12 barbless streamer hooks: Then I tied two deer hair…

I tied 17 flies tonight. I’m getting faster! In-progress shots: These were fun to play around with and see what I could make. I also had fun getting my SLR out and using it again. Hopefully these photos are a little better. I need to get better about not crowding the hook eyes. Some of…

A follow up to yesterday’s post on tying glass bead kebari: I tied eight more of the same pattern (pheasant hackle, red thread, peacock herl) tonight and am starting to get the hang of it. I also stepped down from a size 10 nymph hook to a size 12 dry fly hook, which has a…

Trying out tying some Glass Bead Takayama Sakasa Kebari by Jason Klass. I have a lot to learn, but am making progress, which is all I can ask for. Tonight I got a little better at matching my material to my hook size and used two new ones (glass beads and peacock herl) for the…

As I wrote about in my last weekly update, I’m learning how to tie flies. Tonight I wanted to try tying some nymphs in order to practice my whip finishing and work with wire, which I hadn’t tried yet. I decided to try tying The Shetland Killer. Unfortunately I didn’t have the right size wire,…