On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:20:18 -0800 (PST), riverman wrote:

Anyone remember the first self-tied fly that they ever caught a fish
on?

Mine was a #16 Adams in a stocked pond in South Africa. Sloppy wings,
although they were the best I could do, and the body was grey/green
with coch-y-bonddu hackle. Textbook stalk and cast, and a fat 14"
trout saw it land near the school, and took it smoothly. It all felt
so...natural.. I still have the fly, and if it weren't for the fact
that it was my first catch, I'd be embarassed at how poorly it was
tied.

Anyone else?

--riverman

I would have been around 6 or 7, it probably a bass on a deer hair popper or a
"brim" on a Royal Coachman, tyed on a Thompson/Herter's A, in the Pascagoula
River system, almost certainly on a either a Wonderod or a Silaflex with
Medalist (a "real" one). I think I remember it being the bass, but I can't
swear to it.

TC,
R