Dry Fly Innovations

You know, I’m generally writing about sneaking up on a big “brownie” or serving a BWO to big rainbows feeding troughs, but we just finished the Boise Sportsman Show and I could not believe the amount of skilled dry fly fisherman I met.  It made me proud to live in this area and share the [...]

At 10:15 we’re on the river driving toward the dam and the river is alive with fish.  Every slick and every window of holding water there were noses popping at the surface.  The river was showing every sign that it was going to be a monster day on the “O”.
We parked on the midge water [...]

I’m on my knees, fifteen feet from the edge of the bank and there’s three big brownies feeding just off the edge of the bank in perfectly calm water.  I’m telling myself there’s not even a small chance of getting one of those fish to take, but I had to try.  I deliver a #22 [...]

One of the most lethal flies I have ever thrown at rainbows in the late fall and winter is the No Hackle Blue Wing Olive from Joe Bare and Nate Brumley.  Joe Bare is a master fly tyer and guide on the South Fork of the Snake River in eastern Idaho.  He ties all of [...]

If you are the fly fishing enthusiast who likes to dry fly fish Idaho on a pristine alpine lake or fooling fish on a gin clear high mountain river or stream, we’ve created an awesome weapon in your quest.  The “Majestic” from Dry Fly Innovations has all the flies that you would ever need at [...]

It’s all about the emerger on the South Fork right now.  The midge hatches are becoming dense and the BWO’s are just starting to hatch in larger numbers.  In most stretches of river you are not finding surface feeding rainbows, but there are those stretches that are alive with fish
I arrived at the river around [...]

We were on the river at 11:30 in the morning.  It was a gorgeous day, warm in the low 40’s and no wind.  I’d gone early so my partner, Mudd our lab puppy could spend some river time before the hatch, but as we were driving by a big slick above Cow Creek there were [...]

Intermittent sunshine, light breeze, and 40 degrees, its still pretty winter like on the South Fork of the Boise River, but the BWO hatches are beginning to kick off.
Around 2:00 in the afternoon a few BWO began to pop, but there weren’t enough of them to bring the fish to the surface.  So there were [...]

How spectacular could it be if you could grab one fly box and know you could meet the fish challenge presented from early spring to early fall?  The “Ultimate” fly box from Dry Fly Innovations is the perfect tool to dry fly fish Idaho.  It comes equipped with 10 dozen flies that are field tested [...]

Intermittent sunshine, light breeze, and 40 degrees, its still pretty winter like on the South Fork of the Boise River, but the BWO hatches are beginning to kick off.
Around 2:00 in the afternoon a few BWO began to pop, but there weren’t enough of them to bring the fish to the surface.  So there were [...]