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Article: Feather art: ; Internet spurs resurgence in ornate salmon flies
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- November 11, 2007
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johnmccoy@wvgazette.com
For the past two years, I've been on a journey - a journey into
the most colorful era of fly fishing's past.
On a whim, I decided to celebrate my 50th birthday by learning
how to tie full-dress Atlantic salmon flies. What I knew about those
flies would hardly fill a sentence: I knew they were colorful and
19th century salmon fishermen used them.
What I discovered about them would fill a volume - a heavy, thick
volume packed with teeny-weeny print.
For instance, I learned that some traditional full-dress patterns
date back to the mid 1800s; that the materials used to tie them
sometimes aren't easy to get; and that even for experienced fly
dressers, they're a real ...