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Brown Owl

Brown Owl Rusty Dunn fishing fly

Fountains of Youth – Classic trout flies that have withstood the test of time … flies that remain “forever young” by Rusty Dunn If the history of fly fishing is viewed with the mirror of time, dry-fly fishing… Read More

Halford’s Rough Olive

Fly Tying Rusty Dunn: Halford's Rough Olive

Fountains of Youth – Classic trout flies that have withstood the test of time … flies that remain “forever young” by Rusty Dunn The period shortly before and after 1900 was a time of upheaval in the fly-fishing… Read More

Green Tail

Green Tail

Fountains of Youth – Classic trout flies that have withstood the test of time … flies that remain “forever young” by Rusty Dunn On a glorious late April day in England in the early 1800s, daffodils trumpet spring’s… Read More

Little Red Sedge

Rusty Dunn Little Red Sedge

Fountains of Youth – Classic trout flies that have withstood the test of time … flies that remain “forever young” by Rusty Dunn The hopes and dreams of most dry-fly anglers rest on the shoulders of but two… Read More

Brown Bivisible

Bivisible fly Rusty Dunn

Fountains of Youth – Classic trout flies that have withstood the test of time … flies that remain “forever young” by Rusty Dunn Have a sip of New York City municipal water, and you’re drinking a cup of… Read More

Bird’s Nest Nymph

Bird's Nest Nymph - Rusty Dunn

Fountains of Youth – Classic trout flies that have withstood the test of time … flies that remain “forever young” by Rusty Dunn If you fly fish long enough, you will probably encounter one of angling’s most enjoyable… Read More

Swanson’s Wet Dry Fly

Rusty Dunn Swanson Wet Dry Fly

Fountains of Youth – Classic trout flies that have withstood the test of time … flies that remain “forever young” by Rusty Dunn Ojibwe natives called the river Wiisaakode-ziibi (“river through half-burnt woods”) due to the many for­est… Read More

Rim Chung’s RS2

Rusty Dunn Rim Chung's RS2

Fountains of Youth – Classic trout flies that have withstood the test of time … flies that remain “forever young” by Rusty Dunn Spring creeks are the crown jewels of fly fishing. The com­mon feature of all spring… Read More

Sherry Spinner

Sherry Spinner Rusty Dunn

Fountains of Youth – Classic trout flies that have withstood the test of time … flies that remain “forever young” by Rusty Dunn Fly tyers have long been obsessed – some would say excessively so – with matching… Read More

Iron Blue Nymph

Rusty Dunn Iron Blue Nymph

Fountains of Youth – Classic trout flies that have withstood the test of time … flies that remain “forever young” by Rusty Dunn Tie an Iron Blue Nymph on a #16 hook, and you’ve recreated the most famous… Read More