Flies The Old Timers Used

[Pflugradt]

Without further adieu I present to you the "Arlene".

Hope you enjoy.

Steve

[mic]

Thanks, that is a good looking fly. At the trout parks, did you drift, swing, or strip the fly?

[mic]

Thanks, that is a good looking fly. At the trout parks, did you drift, swing, or strip the fly?

[Pflugradt]

Yup......... tied with some weight under the chenille cast upstream and across and strip or crawl just fast enough to keep in touch with the fly, then as it swings keep the line tight enough to feel the fly but allow it to slowly pay out and rise at the end of the swing. Had fish hit it all through those different portions of a cast. Best and most agressive hits come as it rises slowly at the end of a swing but as I said they mit it all through the cast. When we were fishing it for goggles and smallies we would cast just up and acrost the current then strip, weighted or unweighted and strip short and quick.

Steve

[Pflugradt]

Woule anyone happen to have any of the old K-poc laying around that they would be willing to part with? A friend of mine would really like to have some and tie a few of those flies (much older gentleman than myself). He said he fished them as a young boy with his father.

[Gavin]

Google Kapok Fill..its available for a couple bucks a pound..

[Danoinark]

The .56'er is an (Arkansas) Ozarks creation by Tom Nixon, brother of MO gov Jay Nixon.

Tying Link - http://www.taneycomo...wtotie56er.html

Book Link - http://www.warmwater...nks2.asp?page=2

You can search for the book... but if you buy one - only buy the copyright 1968 1st printing.

Amazon and abebooks both have it for sale.

Brian why just the 68 printing????

[Pflugradt]

Right on Gavin, thanks.

Steve

[Rolan Duffield]

I learned to tie flies back in the late 50's. Still have a box of the original patterns. Our favorites were generally woolies, yarn nymphs, maribou tied on standard fly hooks and some drys. We did use a variety of nymph patterns. Back in those days no one used floats, we learned to watch the belly in the line to detect a strike when using nymphs.

My first fly rod was a bamboo rod. A few years later we had the fiberglass rods equipped with chrome snake guides. I often had to replace the guides twice a year as they abraded easily and would ruin a fly line

The above comments are interesting and show how Trout fishing has evolved over the years.