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What's your top 5 favorite flys currently in use? Don't really care where
your fishin 'em. Just curious... Anthony |
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Anthony wrote:
What's your top 5 favorite flys currently in use? Don't really care where your fishin 'em. Just curious... Whatever's working. I'll take five of those. :-) More seriously: parachute adams simulator pheasant tail nymph hare's ear nymph wooley bugger If you can't catch fish with those five, you can't catch fish. -- Cut "to the chase" for my email address. |
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montana nymph
royal stimulator royal wolff hare & copper Fur Fly |
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Olive Wooly Bugger
Deep Sparkle Pupa P.T. Nymph Elk Hair Caddis Usual |
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"Anthony" wrote in message news:Gb7Lf.3708$0z.2421@trnddc01... What's your top 5 favorite flys currently in use? Don't really care where your fishin 'em. Just curious... In no particular order...... Olive wooly bugger. Elk hair caddis. Stimulator. GRHE nymph. And......um......Pass lake, I guess. Wolfgang |
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wrote in message oups.com... Olive Wooly Bugger Deep Sparkle Pupa P.T. Nymph Elk Hair Caddis Usual Depends on the water, the season and the fish. But considering that I usually fish for trout, I'd say: Some upwing jobber PT Nymph Skip nymph Wooly bugger EHC --riverman |
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Coyote Ugly
EHC PT Nymph Usual Frank's Fightin' Craw (Hey, hadda put in the last one.) Frank Reid |
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"Anthony" wrote in message news:Gb7Lf.3708$0z.2421@trnddc01... What's your top 5 favorite flys currently in use? Don't really care where your fishin 'em. Just curious... Anthony well, guess I shoulda put mine in... d;) Shepards Patuxent Special Pheasent Tail nymph Bead Head nymph Black Woolybugger BWO |
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On 2/22/06 7:18 PM, in article Gb7Lf.3708$0z.2421@trnddc01, "Anthony"
wrote: What's your top 5 favorite flys currently in use? Don't really care where your fishin 'em. Just curious... Parachute Adams BWO EHC Snowshoe caddis emerger Royal coachman wet Bill |
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Elk hair caddis
Ritz-D Usual Zug Bug Traun Spezial Hans van der Stroom "Anthony" schreef in bericht news:Gb7Lf.3708$0z.2421@trnddc01... What's your top 5 favorite flys currently in use? Don't really care where your fishin 'em. Just curious... Anthony |
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Anthony wrote:
What's your top 5 favorite flys currently in use? Don't really care where your fishin 'em. Just curious... Anthony parachute adams royal trude renegade ehc pmd Russell |
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On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:18:46 GMT, "Anthony" wrote:
What's your top 5 favorite flys currently in use? Don't really care where your fishin 'em. Just curious... para Adams tan EHC stimulator foam beetle PT nymph -- Charlie... http://www.chocphoto.com |
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"Russell D." wrote in message ... Anthony wrote: What's your top 5 favorite flys currently in use? Don't really care where your fishin 'em. Just curious... Anthony parachute adams royal trude renegade ehc pmd Russell Well....I'm presuming you mean *trout* flies (we do a ****load of Striper/Blue fishing here on the coast of Maine) so as to trout/Landlocks: A) Duck Butt Dun (various color bodies to match) B) Pheasant Tail Nymph (Bead-Head) C) Floating Muddler D) Crawdad colored Clouser Minnow E) Emergent Sparkle Caddis n(candy apple green) Damned tough to picj just 5, though. It pains me to leave our ANY spent Spinners; GRHE's; Kaufman Stone Nymphs; Stimulators; Black Ghost Marabous; Trico Spinners;....I could go on with several dozen more; but you get the picture. Dave M |
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"Anthony" wrote in message news:Gb7Lf.3708$0z.2421@trnddc01... What's your top 5 favorite flys currently in use? Don't really care where your fishin 'em. Just curious... Anthony Sparkle Dun PT nymph EZ Caddis Muskrat and Partridge Soft Hackle Wooley Bugger This is more of a "if I could ONLY take five" list than a "five I use the most" list. A true 'favorites" list would reflect my appreciation of ties that excel at solving very specific angling problems ... Harrop's Captive Dun might be an example, it won't catch fish "anywhere, anytime" but in the right where and time it is superb. Or what I call a "BOP nymph," a simple tie that is my go to for most sight nymphing. I actually use both of these far more often than a wooley bugger or EZ Caddis, maybe even than a PT Nymph, and I carry lots of other, similar, 'special purpose" flies. This is much like the parallel searches for the 'one best all around rod' and 'the very best special purpose rod for brushy tiny mountain streams' One reason such parallel searches continue after dozens of generations of anglers have bickered over them is the simple fact that both searches have merit. A Royal Wulff WILL catch some fish nearly anywhere, something that can't be said for a Transitional Nymph. And a highly specialized Transitional Nymph, with carefully selected size and colors, WILL catch the most fish ( and very likely the best fish ) in the early stages of the mayfly hatch it's tied to mimic, something the Royal Wulff can't claim. I now have enough time to fish that I greatly enjoy and prefer the more complicated specialist approach, an approach that duly rewards extra study and observation. When my time was more limited I preferred patterns I could trust to get me some fish, regardless. I carry both types of flies, I carry a LOT of flies :-) |
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Anthony wrote:
What's your top 5 favorite flys currently in use? Don't really care where your fishin 'em. Just curious... I'll assume we're talking trout flies and also assume there's no hatch coming off, I mean if there was a hatch coming off my favorite fly would be whatever is hatching. So this is a top 5 "attractor pattern list" in no particular order. Royal Wulff Parachute Adams Stimulator Dave's Hopper Yellow Humpy -- Ken Fortenberry |
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Ken Fortenberry wrote in
et: Anthony wrote: What's your top 5 favorite flys currently in use? Don't really care where your fishin 'em. Just curious... I'll assume we're talking trout flies and also assume there's no hatch coming off, I mean if there was a hatch coming off my favorite fly would be whatever is hatching. So this is a top 5 "attractor pattern list" in no particular order. Royal Wulff Parachute Adams Stimulator Dave's Hopper Yellow Humpy Just out of curiosity, have any of the Parachute Adams guys tried the Usual, which also sits fairly low in the water? I'm a Usual guy who hasn't extensively played with parachutes, but I find the Usual to be an extremely flexible pattern, and a no-brainer to tie. You can tie a half dozen Usuals in the time it takes to tie two Parachute Adams. You can tie it from about a size 16 or 18 all the way up to 12's or 10's. You can dork around with the wing on the tying bench to get the thing to sit a variety of ways on the water, and present a variety of different profiles. On streamside, its simple to do a little surgery on your fly to change the presentation. Bunny feet are cheaply available in a variety of colors, and are dirt cheap compared even to budget hackle. I don't have to deal with the disappointment of reaching for a neck and finding nothing but a big bald spot in the 14-16 area. Last, but hardly least, the fly has worked amazingly for me. I've tied Usuals to imitate every major hatch we have on our local water with reputably smart and picky fish, and I've been successful. I've used it in the Catskills, Adirondacks, and WNY, with good results. My last trip to the Catskills, members of our party were stealing Usuals at an amazing rate, until they got into Dette's shop to buy their own damn Usuals. She had plenty in her bins! I'd sooner pass up carrying meticulous Catskill tied imitations designed to precisely match a hatch than a Usual that's tied close enough. -- Scott Reverse name to reply |
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Ken Fortenberry typed:
Anthony wrote: What's your top 5 favorite flys currently in use? Don't really care where your fishin 'em. Just curious... I'll assume we're talking trout flies and also assume there's no hatch coming off, I mean if there was a hatch coming off my favorite fly would be whatever is hatching. So this is a top 5 "attractor pattern list" in no particular order. .... Yellow Humpy Do you prefer these with hook or without? ;-) -- TL, Tim ------------------------- http://css.sbcma.com/timj |
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Scott Seidman wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote: ... Royal Wulff Parachute Adams Stimulator Dave's Hopper Yellow Humpy Just out of curiosity, have any of the Parachute Adams guys tried the Usual, which also sits fairly low in the water? ... Yes, as a matter of fact, I have tried a Usual. It was a Tom Littleton tie that I got in a fly swap. I think I've mentioned here that it was one of the two most productive flies I've ever received in a fly swap, the other being Willi Loehman's midge emerger. I think of the Usual as something of an eastern pattern and I never had occasion to use one until I tried Tom's. It's an excellent fly but not one that's usually stocked in fly shops where I fish so it flies under my radar. Now that my eyes are almost fixed and I can get back to tying I'll have to get some bunny and tie a few. (Although I'd just as soon have a few of Tom's. ;-) -- Ken Fortenberry |
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Ken Fortenberry wrote in news:DtmLf.16062
: Scott Seidman wrote: Ken Fortenberry wrote: ... Royal Wulff Parachute Adams Stimulator Dave's Hopper Yellow Humpy Just out of curiosity, have any of the Parachute Adams guys tried the Usual, which also sits fairly low in the water? ... Yes, as a matter of fact, I have tried a Usual. It was a Tom Littleton tie that I got in a fly swap. I think I've mentioned here that it was one of the two most productive flies I've ever received in a fly swap, the other being Willi Loehman's midge emerger. I think of the Usual as something of an eastern pattern and I never had occasion to use one until I tried Tom's. It's an excellent fly but not one that's usually stocked in fly shops where I fish so it flies under my radar. Now that my eyes are almost fixed and I can get back to tying I'll have to get some bunny and tie a few. (Although I'd just as soon have a few of Tom's. ;-) What's your biggest hatch?? Just let me know size, tail, body, and wing color (wing can be white, dun, or natural bunny foot). No promises, but next time I tie them up, if I have enough hooks laying around, I'll try to remember to whip off a half dozen for you. -- Scott Reverse name to reply |
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On 2/23/06 12:41 PM, in article
, "Ken Fortenberry" wrote: Scott Seidman wrote: Ken Fortenberry wrote: ... Royal Wulff Parachute Adams Stimulator Dave's Hopper Yellow Humpy Just out of curiosity, have any of the Parachute Adams guys tried the Usual, which also sits fairly low in the water? ... Yes, as a matter of fact, I have tried a Usual. It was a Tom Littleton tie that I got in a fly swap. I think I've mentioned here that it was one of the two most productive flies I've ever received in a fly swap, the other being Willi Loehman's midge emerger. I don't think I replied to the "do you use fly swap flies or keep 'em clean?" thread, but my (internal) response was - I use 'em because Stan keeps the photo page if I ever want to tie up more of a particularly productive one. So just now I ditty-bopped on over to gula.org to look at the picture of Tom's Usual and KA-BLAM! "The database is off-line. Please try later." Noooooooo! :-) Kinda wanted to tie up some of those emergers as well.... Bill ps. In response to Scott, I haven't fished a Usual regularly, but will certainly take your advice! |
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On 2/23/06 1:34 PM, in article , "William
Claspy" wrote: So just now I ditty-bopped on over to gula.org to look at the picture of Tom's Usual and KA-BLAM! "The database is off-line. Please try later." Noooooooo! I just used Google and they had Stan's page still in the cache. I also looked at a few other Usual images via Google, and it would appear that there isn't really a standard pattern, even beyond colors. One had the wing as a down wing, one had it looking like a parachute post, and Tom's is raked forward. Most use snowshoe hare hair ;-) as the tail, but one used mallard flank feathers. Interesting! Bill |
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On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:18:46 GMT, "Anthony" wrote:
What's your top 5 favorite flys currently in use? Don't really care where your fishin 'em. Adams Elk Hair Caddis Wooly Bugger Usual foam head emerger |
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1.) Ryan's Butt(Tim "Panman" Anderson Pattern)
2.) PT Nymph 3.) Marabou Miss 4.) BH Nymph 5.) Waxie(my own Waxworm Pattern) Kahuna Anthony wrote: What's your top 5 favorite flys currently in use? Don't really care where= |
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From Anthony's message dated 2/22/2006 4:18 PM:
What's your top 5 favorite flys currently in use? Don't really care where your fishin 'em. Just curious... Anthony I've stopped carrying 5 boxes and a portable tying kit, and have begun travelling lighter. Last year I carried only Bird's Nests and Stimulators, each in various colors. It worked very well for me. |
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"Ken Fortenberry" Now that my eyes are almost fixed and I can get back to tying I'll have to get some bunny and tie a few. (Although I'd just as soon have a few of Tom's. ;-) FWIW, I have been tinkering for the past 6 or 7 years with a lot of variations on the Usual thing. Duns,at first, and midge emergers, then on to caddis adults and emergers. Snowshoe is wonderful stuff, and at the moment, I would say nearly half of my surface or near-surface trout fishing finds me with a snowshoe hair pattern at the terminal end. Tom |
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5 + 8 = 5
elk hair caddis royal wulff sparkle dun woolley bugger brassie pheasant tail bobber hopper bunyan bugger marshmallow nymph bluedoo roadkill streamer skulkin twinkie |
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"Scott Seidman" wrote in message Maybe Tom can kick in with a little history. well, I first got a hold of it from talking to Betters back in 1980 or so. He can get kind of, well, excitable about his inventions, so I took him with a grain of salt and took a half dozen of the "original" Phillips Usual off his hands. The fly was named by a customer of Fran's by the name of Bill Phillips, who annoyed the crap out of people onstream by replying "the Usual" when asked what he was nailing fish on. Anyhow, the pattern I got was composed entirely of snowshoe rabbit foot hair, the coarse hairs for the tail and wing and the underfur, dubbed onto fluorescent orange thread for the body. They worked.....really well at times. No one really did much with snowshoe beyond the original that I ever heard of until around 1990, when a few of us started tinkering. Fred Reese figured out how to dye them properly, and this expanded the useful winging colors. A whole host of folks jumped in and started playing with the stuff, here in the east, notably Barry Beck(who damn near cleaned out Fred's supply a week before I placed an order, bastid!) and Art Lee, who wrote a good article on making dun imitations. I was interested in a durable substitute for CDC, and felt(and still feel) snowshoe was the ticket. It floats well, dries out easily, attacts bubbles like CDC, and when you learn how to chop it up and tie in mixed clumps of the stuff on little hooks, will tie down as small as you want. Tom |
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oh yeah, my top five: Yellow(Perla) stonefly nymph Snowshoe Caddis(tan,if I had to pick a color) Snowshoe Sulfur(sulfurs are too numerous in PA, this one gets used for 2 months) Black Ant Submerger(a scruffy soft hackle wet fly) still, if you tried to part me from the other 760 or so patterns in my vest, I would have to kill you..... Tom |
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"Tom Littleton" wrote in
news:OcpLf.16611$GQ.15443@trnddc03: "Ken Fortenberry" Now that my eyes are almost fixed and I can get back to tying I'll have to get some bunny and tie a few. (Although I'd just as soon have a few of Tom's. ;-) FWIW, I have been tinkering for the past 6 or 7 years with a lot of variations on the Usual thing. Duns,at first, and midge emergers, then on to caddis adults and emergers. Snowshoe is wonderful stuff, and at the moment, I would say nearly half of my surface or near-surface trout fishing finds me with a snowshoe hair pattern at the terminal end. Tom It is super stuff. In general, I find myself using less and less traditional hackle these days-- and when I do, its often on a Caddis imitation. When I fish with a traditional Catskill, its often an older fly. I fish them less, so they stay in my box longer. The exception is during our sulphur hatch. We have a great local burned wing sulphur-- the one Peter Collin tied in a swap some years ago-- that's killer at the right time of year. Even then, I usually cut the bottom of the hackle off so it sits low in the water. In any case, I tend to buy the feathers for that fly in Whiting 100-packs. Scott -- Scott Reverse name to reply |
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"Scott Seidman" wrote The exception is during our sulphur hatch. We have a great local burned wing sulphur-- the one Peter Collin tied in a swap some years ago-- that's killer at the right time of year. Even then, I usually cut the bottom of the hackle off so it sits low in the water. having found that, on flat water, low floating sulfurs are by far the best, I swear by the snowshoe sulfur duns(I tie an orange and a pale yellow version). I find cutwings too fussy and fragile to fish hard, and I fish sulfur hatches hard. Tom |
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Anthony wrote:
What's your top 5 favorite flys currently in use? Don't really care where your fishin 'em. Just curious... Anthony Not sure how to interpret your question, so I'll put up a list of my five most used flies in no particular order: Bruce's Foam Backed Midge Soft Hackle Hare's Ear Pheasant Tail Parachute Adams Charlie Wilson's Orange Stimulator A Woolly Bugger is a standard and is mentioned by people here ( Scott even chose it although "that I rarely use on the particular waters that I usually fish"). In all the years I've fished, I've probably caught a dozen stream/river fish on a Bugger. I haven't fished it alot but enough to know it doesn't produce for me. I have some success with it in lakes both for trout and carp. Willi |
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Scott Seidman wrote:
I think of the Usual as something of an eastern pattern and I never had occasion to use one until I tried Tom's. It's an excellent fly but not one that's usually stocked in fly shops where I fish so it flies under my radar. Now that my eyes are almost fixed and I can get back to tying I'll have to get some bunny and tie a few. (Although I'd just as soon have a few of Tom's. ;-) What's your biggest hatch?? Just let me know size, tail, body, and wing color (wing can be white, dun, or natural bunny foot). No promises, but next time I tie them up, if I have enough hooks laying around, I'll try to remember to whip off a half dozen for you. Like I said in another thread, the Usual is one of the two flies that I got in a swap that I use the most. However, I "usually" use a modified "Usual". Most of the hatches I fish (aside from Stoneflies) are small. 18's and 20's are the most common. I find the normal Usual kind of gross in those sizes. I use the Usual wing but use micro fibbetts for the tail and a variety of body materials like quill, thread, and dubbing. Willi |
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Anthony wrote:
What's your top 5 favorite flys currently in use? Don't really care where your fishin 'em. Just curious... Anthony PT(several variations) EC Caddis Copper John Hopper(variations) Para BWO brians |
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"Scott Seidman" wrote I'm a Usual guy many people find me a bit unusual, .... but is a Usual just using snowshoe rabbit foot hair for the wings instead of more usual materials? If so, I usually have a few Usuals in my box, although I find the hair hard to deal with in smaller sizes and usually use cdc for those |
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"Larry L" wrote in
: "Scott Seidman" wrote I'm a Usual guy many people find me a bit unusual, .... but is a Usual just using snowshoe rabbit foot hair for the wings instead of more usual materials? That's the beast If so, I usually have a few Usuals in my box, although I find the hair hard to deal with in smaller sizes and usually use cdc for those Tom has posted a cool way to deal with small flies and showshoe. -- Scott Reverse name to reply |
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"Scott Seidman" wrote Tom has posted a cool way to deal with small flies and showshoe. .....and, I will repeat, in brief form: chop the hair off the snowshoe rabbit foot. All of it. Pile it into a coffee grinder and mix it with a couple of short pulses. The mess you now have is mixed up every which way, which is how you want it. To tie wings onto a small hook(I use these techniques on 18s and smaller), a few basic techniques are used. For upright wing clumps, take a sparse pinch of hair, lash across shank as you would a spinner wing. Pull upright, take one, or at most two wraps around the base of the splayed wing. Voila! It stands upright, with no added bulk. For downwings, take similar sparse clump of hair, hold over shank and tie down behind eye. DO NOT cut the length hanging forward, but instead, divide forward strands into two halves, lash one down on far side of wing, one on near side of wing. No more than 6 wraps of thread should complete this whole process, after which you can finish head area sparsely. Hope this helps. Tom |
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"Tom Littleton" wrote in
news:3zsLf.50441$6f2.6969@trnddc02: "Scott Seidman" wrote Tom has posted a cool way to deal with small flies and showshoe. ....and, I will repeat, in brief form: chop the hair off the snowshoe rabbit foot. All of it. Pile it into a coffee grinder and mix it with a couple of short pulses. The mess you now have is mixed up every which way, which is how you want it. To tie wings onto a small hook(I use these techniques on 18s and smaller), a few basic techniques are used. For upright wing clumps, take a sparse pinch of hair, lash across shank as you would a spinner wing. Pull upright, take one, or at most two wraps around the base of the splayed wing. Voila! It stands upright, with no added bulk. For downwings, take similar sparse clump of hair, hold over shank and tie down behind eye. DO NOT cut the length hanging forward, but instead, divide forward strands into two halves, lash one down on far side of wing, one on near side of wing. No more than 6 wraps of thread should complete this whole process, after which you can finish head area sparsely. Hope this helps. Tom Thanks for refreshing my memory, Tom. I was about to go search google, but now I have this post archived. It's going to be interesting to see if the usuals pop up on peoples top fly list around next september. -- Scott Reverse name to reply |
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Don't use much "hackle" anymore. Love that snowshoe. Got a bunch of
cul d'canard if anyone wants it. Frank Reid |
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Don't use much "hackle" anymore. Love that snowshoe. Got a bunch of
cul d'canard if anyone wants it. Frank Reid |
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Tom, when you going to bring the Coyote Ugly out of the closet? Best
fly I've used in years. Tom: "I think this water has been fished over." Frank: "Yeh, by ME!" Love that fly. Frank Reid |
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