Hi Paul
I don't know how accurate this information is but there is a fly in Herters book called the Marryat. That is also called the Renegade Tied by a Mrs. Edith Cox sometime in the 1870s.
Dean
Paul Marriner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Paul Marriner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Steve, I spent a few minutes this AM on your fore and aft query. As a
wet fly, this design has been around for some 3 or 4 centuries; in the
case of salmon flies they were called grubs.
However, the earliest mention as a "dry" fly that I came across was in
Jean-Paul Pequegnot's book, French Fishing Flies. He records a series of
patterns by a Doctor Juge known as Mouches Exquises (Exquisite Flies)
first created in 1918. Pequegnot also mentions that a Horace Brown
(Kennet in England) also claimed the design named Fore and After or Fore
and Aft flies. Datus Proper puts this claim as from the 30's, at least a
decade after Juge.
Interestingly, although few use the design today, Pequegnot says he used
them extensively for 20 years and took half his trout and grayling on
them (French trout need to be very selective, as the first error is
virtually always the last).
Bodies of these flies (sizes 12 - 18) are tying thread; here are a
couple of patterns:
Coquine: Yellow body; badger, grizzly, or grey hackles.
Taquine: Red body; grey hackles.
Pont-Aven: Red body; coch-y-bondhu hackles.
Gauloise Bleu: Yellow body; dark blue-grey hackles.
This last is J-P's favourite fly and he writes that he thinks he has
taken several thousand fish on it.
Cheers,
Paul
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