On Apr 24, 6:54 am, salmobytes wrote:
It just dawned on me. The movie "A River Runs Through It," which
I did like a lot, had footage for the two McLean brothers fishing
with Bunyan Bugs--in the 1920s, not far from their Model T Fords.

But the fly was invented by Norman Means in 1945:http://montana-riverboats.com/Pages/...ly-Tiers/Norma...

and

http://www.flytyingworld.com/PagesR/rl-bunyanbug.htm

uh oh;
The above page says the fly in the photo was *tied* in 1945, but the
pattern
was indeed invented (by Norman Means) in the 1020s

......some (of my) observations aren't worth the bytes they're written
on.