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Article: Angling: FLIES FOR FREE.(Sport)

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Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
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December 1, 2006
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Byline: By SILVER WILKIE

HAVING a mate who is a shooter can come in pretty handy for free fly-tying material.

Earlier this year, one of my friends, who occasionally travels to the continent to shoot wild boar, gave me a bunch of wonderfully long boar bristles which I used to tie up pot-bellied pig-style salmon flies.

It's pretty satisfying to ...

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