A place to discuss the collecting and tying of classic flies, the tyers who made them famous, the tools, materials and techniques they used as well as the waters they were designed for. While classic is generally used to describe old things, classic is also used in the sense of first class or in the highest form. Therefore a fully dressed Salmon Fly, or a Carrie Stevens Streamer are just as much classics as a Chernobyl Ant would be. Enjoy the forum.
Bob, thanks again for spearheading the flies for our disabled Veterans Spring fly fishing trip. I received packages this morning from Bob and Martin....
Just for the h3ll of it- some old salmon flies I tied. All have been well used as shad flies or point flies on multi-fly flatwing casts. The cigar is...
just read the mike lawson book about spring creek fishing and he mentions the no-hackle-fly as one of the best. never really considered this one so I...
I recently acquired a shadow box display of nine of Art Flick's dry flies, all about 14s, Quill Gordon, Hendrickson, Red Quill, Grey Fox, MarchBrown,...
I bought these in the 1960's from a friend whose late father used them. The japanned box is 7 x 4 1/8 x 1 ½ and has a cork interior with angled wire...
In the 1940's F. E. Thomas said that for 25 cents or so one could get the brochure of rods and a Thomas Special Steamer fly. Just wondering if anyone...
I believe Toshi Karita is the photographer of the insects in Stalcups Mayflies book. I noticed a series of wing materials carried by Japanese vendors...
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