Flies The Old Timers Used

[moguy1973]

I remember my dad showing me some of the fluff ball flies he used to use at BSSP back in the day. They looked like a piece of stuffing from a stuffed animal and wrapped around a small size 18-22 hook...It didn't look like much but he said he would catch them all day long with it though.

[fishinwrench]

Strike up a conversation on the subject the next time you are in his shop,

OMG, Have you lost your mind?!!!!! Never ask Chuckles about crap like that unless you've recently been fed and have nothing in mind to do for the rest of the day.

[patfish]

OMG, Have you lost your mind?!!!!! Never ask Chuckles about crap like that unless you've recently been fed and have nothing in mind to do for the rest of the day.

No doubt! You'll have to shoot him to get out of there.

[jdmidwest]

No doubt! You'll have to shoot him to get out of there.

I know what you mean. I miss my trips over there.

I was thinking he lived out west for a while, he may have just went out west and brought the fly pattern back. Anyhow, he used to regret being the one associated with the glo ball. He is a purist you know and a glo ball is not really a catskill fly pattern.

[laker67]

One of the first big browns to come out of taney was caught by Dave Betherm on a salmon fur bug. It was caught shortly after the 84 flood that created the original rebar hole, and was caught there at rebar. It weighed 14 lb 2 oz. Later in the same morning he caught a rainbow that weighed 13 lb 8 oz, but on a different fly. Spence Turner wrote an article about taney and featured Dave and his 2 fish in the conservationist mag. He wrote another article later, and featured Dave catching an 8 lb rainbow, at night, on the salmon fur bug. Spence changed some of the actual details about the fly, but Dave told me it was our salmon fur bug that done the catching.

[Brian K. Shaffer]

good stuff Rick - I met Spence Turner only once... cool cat

[Danoinark]

Here's a thread from 2008 about another big Mo brown caught on a Salmon Fur Bug....anyone have a picture of one?

From the forum archives.

[Pflugradt]

May also check out a fly called "Arlene" was basically a yellow hackle tail, black and yellow chenille body (yellow rear half black front) and then yellow hacle wrapped as a collar then a nice black or red head. One of the first my grand father taught me to tie and was a killer at Roaring, Montauk, and I filled more baskets with goggle eyes than I care to remember.

[mic]

May also check out a fly called "Arlene" was basically a yellow hackle tail, black and yellow chenille body (yellow rear half black front) and then yellow hacle wrapped as a collar then a nice black or red head. One of the first my grand father taught me to tie and was a killer at Roaring, Montauk, and I filled more baskets with goggle eyes than I care to remember.

Got a pic of one of those. Sounds like it would catch a blue gill or two also.

[Pflugradt]

I'll sit down and tie a few this evening. We used them for just about everything.

Steve