Thur«., April 22, 1971 (Sec. 1) SANDY (Ort.) POST - 9
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W EfVS
EDGE
By
G e o r g e M a c A le v y
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With the trout season upon us British Isles. Even the late to the formed formessness of silver A herl butt and a pink
chenille ruff behind the hackle,
in just two days, we should take comers such as dry flies and the Jock-O-Dees.
All thses patterns and types and a silver twist rib complete
a hard look at Streamer flies I nymphs were imported whole
and streamer fly fishing. There after the pioneer efforts had are out in Maine to entice the the body embellishments. A
Landlocked Atlantic Salmon in
is no doubt but what streamers been successfully concluded in the numerous lakes. Some were three segment tail of red and
white strips and a piece of herl
w ill get a strong play from England.
successful, some weren’t! But plus a badger hackle complete
The
streamer
fly,
at
the
many who fish the lakes and
all 6) »serious anglers, sooner
reservoirs by trolling It is the advent of the Maine era of or later, become innovators. the fly.
I have tied a few of these for
stream fisherman who has not great fishing, had not been Guide and wealthy patron alike
taken advantage of the fish invented, nor yet even thought took to improving upon what people, and so made a couple
enticing qualities of streamers of. In fact a considerable the British had long thought to for myself. I have never caught
anything on them, but it is
evolutionary process would
and bucktails in Oregon.
surely a pretty fly. Ia m about
take place before it arrived on be the ultimate.
Streamer Flies,
3. THE FANCY LAKES: So to firm up my original con
i the angling scene.
The Young Nomads
The landlocked salmon of were born the first Fancy Lake clusion that it appeal lies more
flies, as they are now known.
1. THE EARLY DAYS: When Maine and Quebec, with its sea Many of these were as in the mystery of its origin and
its beauty, rather than on any
fly fishing first became a sport going cousin of the Maritime elaborate and decorative as
great
propensity to catch fish.
provinces
of
New
Brunswick,
in the Western Hemisphere, no
their Scottish ancestors. In It is worth having, if well tied,
development unique to the Prince Edward Isle, and Nova form they resembled most the
as an art work, or as a piece of
sport had yet come from this Scotia, became the prized Old World form of Salmon fly
jewelry to be looked at rather
gamefish
of
the
North
new arena. Wet flies and
known as the Whole wing fly, of than used.
Salmon flies were borrowed; American continent in the late
fur, feather, and iron, from the 19th century The traditional
Scottish and Irish Salmon flies
were used for both. This was as
close to a streamer fly as any
fly approached at that time.
These were, in the main, very
elaborately dressed wet flies.
The composition and con
struction was such as to render
each creation a work of art.
Some tiers of note so impressed
their own style into these flies
that one could recognize the
tier by looking at the fly.
In England, where tradition
and a long uninterrupted hist
ory of Salmon angling persists,
flies tied by these long dead
m asters of the a rt are
preserved displayed, and
SO M E MEM CALL
mounted, and priced like
A S P A D E A SPADE
famous paintings. I would
UNTIL it i « o DROPPED
O M THE TOE
dearly like to own just one fly
tied by the paternal grand
Call on us for
father of our own famous
assured satisfaction.
Salmon fly tier, Alex Rogan.
2. THE EA R LY F LIE S :
Our main job is to see
George and his dog Ming.
These Scottish and Irish
that you are pleased
Some other Fancy Lakes that
which the Durham Ranger is a
Salmon
flies
were
veritable
every time you come
are
of particular beauty are
good
example.
The
more
symphonies of feathers; Silver
in.
simple ones took their cue from Cassard, Cleveland, Maid of
Doctor, Torrish, and Jock
another British Isle type known the M ill, and Goldenrod. But
Scott, rich with color and
S&H Green Stamps
as a Sea trout fly. This was a aside from artistic beauty, this
sparkle in a major key; or Mar
Clackamas County
group of wet flies that had been class of flies is prim arily of
Lodge
with
its
muted
tonality
in
Bank Money Orders
developed in England and historic interest. It is often
a minor key. The Candlestick
Ireland for the taking of Searun premised that during the
Pay Station for
Maker and Shooting Star are
heyday of the Fancy Lake flies,
P.G.E.
Brown Trout.
slim graceful flies which should
someones hackle became
West Coast Telephone
The
typical
Fancy
Lakes
had
have been a prophecy of the
Northwest Natural Gas
bodies of two and more sections undone and the first streamer
streamer fly to come. Durham
variously ribbed, built up tails was automatically born on the
Ranger, and The Butcher,
SANDY
and wings using from three to a spot. This probably did occur
usually large and flamboyant,
dozen
d iffe re n t
feather on several occasions, but
contrasted sharply to the
nothing was ever recorded on
ruc dainty Blue Charm. The segments in their construction. this
which would give credence
Ph. 668-4111
The
wings
were
often
built
over
sm oothly ta ilo re d
S ilver
« io moctoe avi - sandy . orioon eros:
a foundation feather of quill to this as the origin of the
Wilkinson offers the intipodes
centered spoon shape which streamer.
4. THE FIRST EFFORTS:
made a stiff fly. Some simple
patterns evolved which utilized Contrary to what is often
these spoon wings alone with no thought, the first streamer fly
other wing trimmings. These to be constructed as such was
soon were just called Spoon- not created in Maine. Theodore
wings. Many of these Fancy Gordon, long famous as the
Lake flies had multiple hackles father of the dry fly in America
constructed a series of flies he
of different colors.
Bass fishermen too, were called Bumblepuppies in the
developing a fly system of their e arly 1880’s. This was in
own. Starting with large ver Eastern New York.
As these flies used strips of
sions of trout wet fly patterns,
this class expanded with more wing quill for the long wings,
and more complex winging they are not true streamers,
until this class had the same and are very sim ilar to some
range of wing structures from European Strip wing Salmon
simple to as complex as could flies which had been around for
be devised. It is no wonder the a long time. But some of them
two classes lost their identities could qualify as bucktails, so
and are now considered the Bucktail came before the
together as one class despite stream er, even though its
their different origin. As a development was slower to
whole Fancy Lakes rival the evolve. Also, in the 1880’s,
Old World Salmon flies in their another bucktail was con
use of exotic plumage and structed in Indiana with Bass in
mind. There is also a record of
complex structure.
One of the very famous a bucktail in Idaho in 1901.
Fancy Lakes is the fly called Made with dog hair, this Idaho
Romany Rye. This is a silver fly was designed with Cut
bodied fly with basic wings of Throat trout in mind.
The first evidence of a true
Barred wood duck side
feathers, shouldered w ith streamer in Maine is in 1902 on
Golden Pheasant Tippets In Grand Lake stream. It was
common with this class, it here the first true New England
carries both a tip and a tag, the I E a r n e r was created One of
former yellow silk, and the tag
very fir s t was called
Roosters Regret. This was
predominantly white with some
scarlet trim , but it led to a
W e In s ta ll a n d U p g ra d e
whole family of flies.
Another first was the advent
of the Scripture Bucktails in
Y o u r P e tr o le u m P u m p s a n d T a n k s
Central New York about 1907
Still no bucktails had appeared
in Maine. How is a Bucktail
C A LL T O D A Y F O R FREE E S T IM A T E S ...
differen tia ted
from
a I
Q
streamer? Its all in the wing. If I
O ilc o h a s a c o m p l e t e li n e o f p e t r o l e u m p r o d u c ts
the wing is prim arily hackle
feathers, it is a streamer If all
• GASOLINE
• DIESEL FUEL
or most of the wing is hair, any
hair, it is a bucktail. No matter
what kind of h a ir; bear,
• L U B R IC A T IN G O IL S & G R EA SES
badger, monkey, squirrel tail,
polar bear, or deer hair, you
still call them bucktails
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But it was in Maine that the
streamer was nurtured and
developed It was there that it
became stylized in several
unique styles that comprise
what we know today as The
New England Streamer Fly
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