12-20-2005, 04:30 AM
Before I ever learned how to tie flies, I was fishing at the Green one July morning. I had left all the flies that I had bought for the trip back home. I paid an arm and a leg for a few dries in Dutch John and was not doing very well with them. I saw a guy bring in one trout after another after another. When he came to the shore, I asked him what he was using. He set me up with a very small fly that he called a cream caddis. I had not heard of the fly but I used it with great success. I lost a lot because the fly was so small.
I didn't want to loose it so I too it off and went back to the fly shop to buy some. They didn't have any.
I went back to my trailer and found some small salmon egg hooks and an old frayed towel. I tied a string from the towel to the hook and made a black thread head. It looked close to the fly that the guy gave to me.
WOW that thing caught trout for me for the rest of the trip! I was hooked and I have been tying my own flies ever sense then.
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I didn't want to loose it so I too it off and went back to the fly shop to buy some. They didn't have any.
I went back to my trailer and found some small salmon egg hooks and an old frayed towel. I tied a string from the towel to the hook and made a black thread head. It looked close to the fly that the guy gave to me.
WOW that thing caught trout for me for the rest of the trip! I was hooked and I have been tying my own flies ever sense then.
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