Very nice, Yellow owl. I'm sure Dusty would have approved....
Sorry if this has already been posted somewhere, but I can't say I've noticed it reported anywhere on these pages. Sadly, Eric 'Dusty' Miller, inventor of the 'Willie Gunn' bought the pool on November 21st 2011.
I couldn't find an obituary online, but for T&S readers there are a few lines on page 104 of this months issue.
Here's an exerpt from from the obituary for Willie Gunn, who died in 1996
''The pattern was designed to imitate a hair-wing version of a fully dressed Thunder & Lightning and the originator of the design was an RAF officer, Flt-Lt "Dusty" Miller, who was based at Kinloss in Morayshire. Miller dressed salmon flies for another famous Scottish salmon angler, Rob Wilson, of Brora, and the two men were anxious to rationalise the large number of hair-wing patterns which were then (in the late 1940s) beginning to appear in an ever-increasing range of shapes and sizes.
Miller produced 25 patterns which he sent to Wilson for his comment and approval. Wilson was examining the newly-arrived flies in his shop one morning when Willie Gunn called to equip himself with a few patterns for a day's sport on the River Brora: "By gum," Gunn said to Wilson, pointing to one of the flies, "that looks bonny. If I had a choice, that's the one I would use." "Well," said Wilson, "you must have it and we will name the fly the Willie Gunn."
During the course of his day's fishing Gunn caught six salmon on the fly, and on the following day a further four. News of the "miracle" fly quickly spread throughout the north and within a short space of time the fly had established itself as a principal weapon in the salmon angler's armoury.''
Full obituary.
gold wullie gunn tubes
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