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- spiders being centuries-old North Country, West Country and Scots wet flies for trout and grayling; the reinventors being our Stateside cousins who now just love them.
http://www.ginkandgasoline.com/gink-gasoline-fly-patterns/the-magic-of-soft-hackles/
Rightly so. Two fly types probably never previously used in Argentina and Chile in the early 1990s were: a) tiny beadhead flies, and b) Spiders.
Oh my, how they caught trout. And not just resident browns, brooks and rainbows. An Argentine sea-trout fishing pal, one of the longest fished and very probably the best in country, mentioned a fly in an email to me the other day, a Spider pattern that I cooked up and first cast into his river in 1995. I couldn't believe the result; clearly, neither can he, even now: "Still one of our best flies, Paul", and we weren't even talking about flies in our correspondence; must have been on his mind though, with his new fishing season only a few weeks away.
Reinvent that.
http://www.ginkandgasoline.com/gink-gasoline-fly-patterns/the-magic-of-soft-hackles/
Rightly so. Two fly types probably never previously used in Argentina and Chile in the early 1990s were: a) tiny beadhead flies, and b) Spiders.
Oh my, how they caught trout. And not just resident browns, brooks and rainbows. An Argentine sea-trout fishing pal, one of the longest fished and very probably the best in country, mentioned a fly in an email to me the other day, a Spider pattern that I cooked up and first cast into his river in 1995. I couldn't believe the result; clearly, neither can he, even now: "Still one of our best flies, Paul", and we weren't even talking about flies in our correspondence; must have been on his mind though, with his new fishing season only a few weeks away.
Reinvent that.