CFFC 6TH WINTER FLY SWAP
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Tied by Mike "The Heart" Willis |
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Tier's Comments:
A North American pattern created by Leonard Halliday in 1922.
There are many variations of this fly eg. Spent Wing, Loop Wing and Parchute (aka Gulpa Adams)2.
Its non-descript dressing and dun silhouette makes it a useful olive imitation in addition to its ability to represent sedges, stoneflies and midges - John Roberts1
Charles Jardine2 writes that he would be utterly lost without it.
Working your way up on a moorland stream on a sparkling day in late spring.....is one of the great pleasures of angling. My choice of fly f0r such a day would be a small hairwing sedge, Grey Duster or Adams. sixe 16 - Mike Weaver3
From a personal point of view, I have a special fondness for it because it caught me my second ever wild brown trout, a fish of 10.5" taken on the River Yeo downstream from Dunscombe Bridge, late on a very lovely early May day in 2002.
1 A Guide to River Trout Flies, John Roberts, Crowood, ISBN 1-85223-936-0
2 The Sothebey's Guide to Fly-Fishing for Trout, Charles Jardine, Dorling Kindersley, ISBN 0-86318-590-8
3 The Pursuit of Wild Trout, Mike Weaver, Merlin Unwin, ISBN 1-873674-00-7
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