On 18 Sep, 01:28, Lazarus Cooke
wrote:

Many thanks, mike. I get the impression (only from notes on the web)
that although it's been used a lot in the northwest, it was originally
an atlantic fly - very similar to a stoat's tail. I was going to say
that it was a really long time ago, not the fifties, and then I
realized that the fifties *were* a long time ago.

Ah dear.

thanks again

Lazarus

I have been working on some of these things for quite a while, and
researching histories etc, but I was obliged to put hair winged flies
on the back burner, as there are so many which are extremely similar,
and it is also difficult to find accurate histories. In the vast
majority of cases, they are merely hair wing version of other flies,
but there are some exceptions.

You may find this of interest, although there are not many salmon
flies there yet, they too are on the back burner! ;

http://www.mike-connor.homepage.t-on...cal_flies.html

TL
MC