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When the Fisherman is Away
This article came up today on my Facebook page, as a memory from five years ago, in 2012. Unfortunately, our beloved Abigail passed away in November 2016, the day after Thanksgiving. She was two months...
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Close Encounters of the Trout Kind
From three years ago today, but well worth sharing again. There is some good stuff here, if I may say so myself. Also in the comments, my dear departed friend, Jack Tokach, shared an amusing story...
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Just Fishing
It has been a long, long time since I posted anything here. Well, I’ve been busy. There were the scattered posts I made, the most recent but still old ones, referring to my drumming in a Classic Rock...
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Lee Wulff and Curt Gowdy in Labrador
Greetings blog followers and friends! Long time no see! :-D It has been a long while since I posted anything here. Lots of reasons for that, mostly living a busy life, still tying flies, drumming and...
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Hackles – Photo Tutorial on What’s What
A quick hackle / photo visual tutorial: A line-drawn rooster and diagram illustrating where specific feathers that fly tiers use come from on the bird’s body. I saw this old, or what seemed to me to be...
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A Weekend With Carrie Stevens
Been gone too long, sorry about that, lots of reasons, none bad. ;-) No time to even explain, not that it would be necessary. :-) Here is my next professional engagement; I am one of seven featured fly...
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The Liar’s Bench at The Angler’s Nook, Shushan, New York
Don Bastian:“The Liar’s Bench” post was written almost two years ago, and it is still continuing to grow. In the last two days, I received two lengthy and well-written e-mails from a man in New Jersey...
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Ontario In March – Fly Tying Classes and Demos
Everything is official now. I am heading to Ontario on Thursday, March 12, and presenting a fly tying class that evening at Grand River Outfitting and Fly Shop in Fergus from 5 – 7 PM. As yet there is...
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Recycled Fish
Yes, indeed. A fish made from recycled materials. Who’d have thought this up? But apparently two women artists from western Pennsylvania did, and made this “beast.” One of my blog followers and friends...
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Online Soft-Hackle Pattern Book
Waterhen and Red Soft-hackle. Photo from Neil Norman’s blog. A fellow named Neil Norman sent me a message a couple weeks ago that he had linked his blog to mine. Finally I had time to check it out. I...
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Status Report and Calendar of Events
This short post is an announcement of several things. First, this is post no. 400, since March of 2010 when I started this blog. I presently have 868 followers. A good many of them signed on in the...
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Bastian’s Floating Sulphur Emerger – Part II
Don Bastian:After today’s post on my Floating Caddis-Mayfly Emerger I received two requests for tying steps to make this fly. So reblogging this original post; here they are, from my article dated May...
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Bastian’s Floating Caddis / Mayfly Emerger
I had announced this on my facebook page last week, but I also wanted to post something here. I am pleased to announce that the Orvis Company has picked up for the third year, my original pattern,...
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Rock ‘n’ Roll
Soon, in the next couple posts, I will reach the number 400 in the total number of posts I have made here since starting this blog in March of 2010. A lot of water has passed under the bridge in the...
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Kelley’s Killer – Carrie Stevens Pattern
A year or so ago, I posted the Kelley’s Killer as presented in the Carrie Stevens book, “Carrie Stevens: Maker of Rangeley Favorite Trout and Salmon Flies,” 2000, by Graydon and Leslie Hilyard. I tied...
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Tomah Joe
Last weekend at the Fly Fishing Show in Somerset, New Jersey, a friend came by and gave me some barred wood duck flank feathers. On Saturday afternoon, I tied this fly for him, a Tomah Joe, dressed...
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Favorite Fishing Flies – 1892
This is the title of my upcoming book, the one that was originally announced here on my blog in November 2011. It was then shared by Fly Tyer Magazine Forum Moderator, David MacConnell, or “D Mac” as...
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Carrie Stevens Streamer Deconstruction – Who Was First?
This article is sub-titled with an old adage: “You can’t believe everything you read.” There is a very easy answer to that question, but first this: The current issue of “Fly Tyer” magazine states that...
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Flymphs
Some fine work, indeed, by my friend from Jarretsville, Maryland. Bill Shuck tied up this selection of flymphs, just to see how a set of these classic, heritage flies would look boxed up. I’m thinkin’...
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Bastian’s Red Squirrel Silver Picket Pin SBS
Now that we are a few days into 2015, I figured I better get something on here. When a friend sent me this link on one of my original patterns – the title fly, or “RSP” as it is now called for short, I...
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