First Fly....

On Feb 11, 11:20*am, 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

A Lucky Strike.
a #12 hook of some kind. Body is the tin foil from a cigarett package,
the hackle from the red cellophane strip that opened the package.
Thread- what ever white thread from my moms sewing kit. Not a very
durable fly, 2 or 3 fish at most.
First fish on that fly was at Bear Creek - the off Balch Park Road on
the west side of the central Sierras (Tulare County). IT was with
them I found that flies catch more fish faster than worms,
grasshoppers or ccockroaches.
The limit in those days was 10 fish a day. My buddy Stan and I took
home 20 and had a fine fish fly.