I guess I was about 10 years old when I saw some flys in a display case at my
local sporting goods store in Union City, N.J.
So I went home and got some pigeon feathers and some of my mom's blue and red
threads and proceeded to make my very first fly.
I still have that fly today and I always
Just started tying a few years ago. It was a blood worm from the beginning of
Randall kaufmann's little beginning fly tying booklet.
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Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:16:07 -0700
I guess I
.. And used my
wife's sewing thread of course, Chuck
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From: Alan Di Somma
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I guess I was about 10 years old when I saw some flys in a display
Mine was a Mudler Minnow, with a west Texas twist, from the pattern in
McClain's Standard Fishing Encyclopedia. It caught my very first trout, a
Brown, on the north fork of the south Platt river in Colorado about 1968.
Have several of the decimated kin in my very first fly box, but the first
] On Behalf Of
Desert Eagle
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Mine was a Mudler Minnow, with a west Texas twist, from the pattern in
McClain's Standard Fishing Encyclopedia. It caught my very first trout, a
Brown
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Pacres
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My first was the ugliest thing ever. I didn't have a pattern to follow, just
tied what I thought a fly should look like. I had not even started fly fishing
19, 2008 11:16 AM
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My first was the ugliest thing ever. I didn't have a pattern to
follow, just tied what I thought a fly should look like. I had not
even started fly fishing, so I was really just guessing. It turned out
to be some sort of Wolly Worm
I'd be interested
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Desert Eagle
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 9:48 AM
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Jimi: I would be, but I'm in FIVE other swaps right now, so just don't have
the time right now, Chuck
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.T'was a Renegade, a bi-visible style fly popular in the High Desert waters
of the U.S. It was 1978, and I was a young pup hanging around Ruel
Stayner's fly shop, in Twin Falls, Idaho. Ruel suggested the fly as an
ideal first fly for a beginning flytyer.
The fly long since went to trout fly
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Wes Wada
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.
T'was a Renegade, a bi-visible style fly popular in the High Desert waters of
the U.S. It was 1978, and I was a young pup
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