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Submitted by Terri Nakamura on

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Darren, I've often told my kids, everyone has a story. Most of the time we are rushing about, too busy to learn them.

Thank you for writing this and for sharing. It must be comforting to Devin's family to know part of him lives through you.

Not all transplants are successful, so huge congratulations for making it to your 10-year anniversary. Here's to many more decades of good fortune and good health.

What a great reminder to those who haven't elected to be organ donors!

Best wishes and thanks, Terri

Ah-oh, you've done it again, Make the rest of us contributors comment, "Yikes, what do I have to do to top this"

Submitted by John LeJeune on

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Do you have an RSS feed for your site? I can't seem to find one. Only an email subscription.

Thanks,

John

I LOVED this one! Very different, and it just WORKS for me. The colors all compliment each other. Sparsely tied. Great skills. Looks like an excellent fish getter to top it off.

Submitted by Tammi on

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Many years ago, a friend told me the Nipmuc name means "We fish on our side, you fish on your side, and no one fishes in the middle where the fishing is best." Thanks for the link to the video.

Nice fly.

Submitted by Chris M on

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I've never fished there, but I've driven that stretch of 395 a ton of times. :P I think the signs there shortened it to Lake Chaubunagungamaug. It's been a few years though ...

Submitted by 1737246326 on

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Who cares it is illegal? What self respecting fly fisherman would dare to kill such a beautiful fish. And since for fly fisherman the day on the water, the scenery, the company are on the first place and fish comes second it does not realy matter. And to be honest i`d rather hook a fish "illegal" instead of a fish thjats hooked so deep it almost crapped out my hook. I do not use them on therself but i often use them in a streamer rig with 2 beads above my streamer its realy makes a difference!

I have had an extensive exchange of views about this fly on an other BB.
In the process I have done further research into its origins and development by other fly dressers.
The original version had a red floss body ribbed with peacock herl but John Kennedy of the South Uist Estates in the Western Isles (Hebrides) improved and strengthened it by ribbing a herl body with red wool. Stan Headley included a fluo floss ribbing and a bottle green peacock hackle as opposed to the metallic blue of the original. It has been very successful on the large English reservoirs and the big Highland and Orkney lochs in a loch-style team. This is taken from John Roberts 'Dictionary of Trout Flies'. The info above is from there.
Here is the recipe given:-
Hook:- 10 - 12, or long shank 12 for salmon and sea-trout.
Thread:- Black.
Butt:- One turn medium flat gold.
Tag:- Fluorescent Red Wool.
Body:- Two strands of Bronze Peacock herl, one wound up the shank and one wound down.
ribbed with four strands of GloBrite #5 (Fire Orange) twisted.
Hackle:- Bottle Green Peacock neck feather (one and a half times the body length).
A bolstering black hen hackle may be added to support the peacock hackle.
This I believe is the Stan Headley version which has been very successful.
Larger versions on low-water salmon hooks are also used as single flies.
So, there you are, blue or green hackles, they are all "Goat's Toes".
I hope this gives some ideas.
I have since realised that this is the version I dressed, excepting I used the metallic blue.

The winding and counter-winding of the peacock herl, and using flat fluo floss strands, twisted, instead of wool for the rib, were, I think, Stan Headley of Orkney, one of the best and most original fly-dressers in the UK, innovations.
I like the peacock herl technique, it gives a very nice even body and combined with the twisted flat floss strands of the rib produces a very nice body. I don't think the green or blue hackle makes a lot of difference, try both.
ps I hope everyone is OK over there in New England after that terrible storm.

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