Memorable Flies

Highlander · #1 (**permalink**) 21-12-2008, 06:51 PM

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Plodger · #2 (**permalink**) 21-12-2008, 09:56 PM

An ally's shrimp which still has two of the treble hook's points nearly straightened out from my first spring salmon from The Kirkaig river and a very much battered and chewed Connemara Black which has been rescued from many a tree and underwater snag which produced some memorable early hill loch fishing.

Plodger

bravo75 · #3 (**permalink**) 21-12-2008, 10:08 PM

A Cascade which caught me my first River Kelvin salmon

hares ears · #4 (**permalink**) 21-12-2008, 10:52 PM

A gold bead hares ear that got me a 14lb salmon.

3lbgrayling · #5 (**permalink**) 21-12-2008, 11:15 PM

The fly that I caught my 1st fly caught salmon on.

#6 (**permalink**) 22-12-2008, 05:16 AM

The size 14 Colonel Downman fished on the tail that won me ma first competition on Loch Doon 12 out of 13 fell to its charms.( Hardly had a bloody troot on it since).
The size 10 Golden Olive Bumble that got me ma biggest wild troot of 4lb ( also sticking down its throat wis a 8 inch troot) . Greedy ******.
The size 16 treble long tailed Ally's shrimp fished in the summer on the River Girvan on the lowest of water accounting for my first fly caught salmon of 9lb.

dappingfly · #7 (**permalink**) 22-12-2008, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Highlander

As I approach my 60th year I was rummaging through my fly boxes this wet & windy afternoon & found a few flies that brought back some memories. I knew I had kept a few that will never be used again but there were more than I thought.

A size 16 Silver Butcher wee double that got me second prize on a Loch Leven competition many years ago.
A Size 12 Currys Red Shrimp on a wee double that got my first Salmon on Coolies Lynn on the River Endrick. A fresh 9lb
A dry Cinnamon Sedge size 16 that took my largest Wild Brown Trout all of 6lbs
A size 10 single Haslam that took a 9lb Sea Trout from the River Leven
A size 10 Invicta that gave me a 3lb Brown from a wee hill loch in Scourie on virtually the last cast of the day.
A size 14 Woodcock & Mixed which took a bag of 12 Clyde Trout none of which were below 1lb one Spring day below Wolf Clyde bridge.
Probably a few more lurking in a box but these ones stir up some memories.
Oh I remember the Peter Ross or was it The Invicta that was taken by a Trout that literally flattened a wave with the take on an unnamed Trout loch near Altnaharra ran off all my fly line & most of 75m of backing swirled & we parted company & all the gillie could say was "That was a big fish". For me nostalgic reckoning kicking in in the twilight years of my life. I have had an eventful life I reckon
Anyone else keep memorable flies ?
Tight Lines
ps The Invicta now that is a good wet fly, never gave me "A Bag" but has saved the day on many occasions & sometimes the biggest to boot

What about the huge hook upon which you hang your copious hat big head.

Come back Len Harris. At least his stories had some truth to them as well as being laughable.

guest3 · #8 (**permalink**) 22-12-2008, 05:21 PM

A size 14, palmered olive dry fly, one of my own that I called an Olive Sedge, for want of a better name. It took my first brace of 1lb trout from the Eden in summer, 1960. I told Dave Calvert about it one day earlier this autumn, when Dave had two grayling on the dry fly, and I didn't!!

But the 'craic'
was enjoyable. TC

dabhoy · #9 (**permalink**) 22-12-2008, 05:37 PM

Have to agree with you Highlander on the Invicta i would never be without one i caught my first ever sea trout on it maybe not huge just over a pound but it still left its mark.

kjackson · #10 (**permalink**) 23-12-2008, 05:40 PM

My most memorable flies seem to be those of my own design. One, the second fly I ever tied without instruction or book looked like a dust bunny but caught a bunch of fish over the years. Basically a mink-dubbed shrimpy thing with a partridge hackle, it's done well well for me, although now my tying seems to have improved a bit.

Then there was the brown hackle yellow variant (tied with a peacock herl butt for some reason) that did well on native redband trout and cutthroat in a mountain river.

The foam-bodied Steelhead Bee that took a heavy 18-inch searun cutt on its first drift in heavy current in the saltwater is a pattern I've come to rely on for fishing the swing in the fall.

That bee and the claret marabou spider are the only two original flies I still own. The spider took two 18-pound plus chum salmon and foul-hooked a 22+inch searun/steelhead cross out of the same little run the same morning. I also lost another chum on that fly as well. That morning was the best ever on a fly for me.

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