In a message dated 1/27/2004 7:52:47 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 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; Thanks for the comments, Paul. A couple Fore & Aft patterns that we still use in the Sierras is the Gray Ugly and the Sierra Bright Dot. Vlad Markov got a number of us to post a selection of Fore & Aft patterns on his web site a few years ago. It still is surprising to me that a fly like the Sierra Bright Dot , one of the most enduring patterns in our area, has little info as to how it came under widespread use in our region yet no one recalls how it got here. Steve Schalla
