Article: OUTDOORS; Tying Saltwater Flies Is a Labor of Artistry - New York Times

Virginia Woolf reported that she often received her inspirations for writing while in the bath. Bob Popovics, 6 feet 3 inches and built like a fullback, often finds inspiration for his revolutionary saltwater flies during long car drives. Such was the case with his Bucktail Deceiver, a huge wisp of a fly that, were it tied any more sparsely, would simply be the visualized thought of a fly. ''I was driving home from Massachusetts when the idea hit,'' he said. ''I had been tying deer-hair streamers, massive ones, for a few years. Now I wanted something with lots of action, a big silhouette and virtually no mass. I must have thought for 200 miles, and then it came to me: tie the deer hair in ...

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