Pritt did not create any flies nor did he create what we think was the difinitive list. At the moment, it is generally thought that the original list came fro John Swarbrick - List of Wharefdale Flies Manuscript c 1800 - but even this has now been proven wrong. The North Country Flies all orginiated in a close knit area and we have now traced this back a further 100 years or so.
Bob Smith and I are about to release a book early next year which demonstrates the true source of the orginal patterns.
As to them being similar, there are very subtle variations. For example some time when you think a Watehen Bloa is the right fly, a well tied Dotteril will out fish it.
I belive that size is the trick to these flies. I tie each pattern I use in sizes 14, 16 and 18. I even have tied down to 20 & 22 for when those fish are sitting under the trees just sipping.
But above all, their effective comes into play by the way that you fish them.
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Originally Posted by midlander
Isn't it conceivable that similar looking yet different patterns were produced by locals on different rivers, different local fly dressers reaching virtually the same conclusion? Does anyone know whether Pritt devised all those patterns himself or whether he compiled the list from patterns used not only in Yorkshire but across the northern counties?
Just look at the similarity between the Clyde, Tweed and Tummel styles. Similar patterns with variations to suit local conditions.
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