"Flyfishing is the most fun you can have standing up" - Arnold Gingrich
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Back in the first half of the LAST CENTURY your main choices for flies were limited to dry flies, wet flies and streamers. Hardly any notice was given to nymphs and terrestrials and what passed for an insect imitation was basically a joke. Imagine a wet salmon fly with over 24 different feathers in it's constuction!!!
Not all was lost because some flies were created and then stood the test of time. The fly above is my version of the Light Cahill, named after a Dan Cahill who worked for the Erie Railroad. Legend has it that a train wreck threatened a shipment of rainbow trout. Cahill mustered a team of men together to transport the cans of trout overland to Callicoon Creek. Within 10 years that stream was known for it's rainbow fishing and Dan had a fly named after him.
I like using the fly above early on a "sulphur day" (a warm June day) and then switch over to a dry when the trout start working the surface in the early evening.
The Blue Dun is a 19th century creation that still is catching trout although it has gone through its own evolution. The purple body is my adaptation and it seems to work as well as the more famous olive body. (it's a BWP and not a BWO).
1 comment:
Dean F.,
About 5 or 6 years ago I met this young guy at the Y Pool and he was doing well. I asked what he was using anf he said a wet March Brown in a size 12. Nobody else seemed to be doing well but he was knocking them out with an ancient pattern. He got the idea from looking at pictures of classic flies and then doing his best to copy them. He said he was hooked on those old classics. I bet there's a bamboo rod in his future!!
Ken
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