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Article: The all-American fly: why has this classic lure stood the test of time? Because it works.
- Article from:
- Field & Stream (West ed.)
- Article date:
- November 1, 1995
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1995 Bonnier Corporation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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While the dry fly, nymph, and winged wet fly were pirated from the other side of the Atlantic, the streamer fly was born in the USA and is all ours. It's as American as a slice of mom's apple pie with a scoop of vanilla on top.
Unfortunately, there's no concensus on who invented this fly or exactly when. I like to believe the story that a standard wet fly's hackle became unwound one day and, with the feathers trailing out behind, caught fish after fish - but that incident is probably apocryphal.
We do know, however, that this minnow-imitating fly and its more recent cousin, the bucktail, first became popular on the landlocked salmon and squaretail fisheries ...