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Paul,

Nope, these should be a much better quality. I have ordered one and will be reporting about the result as soon as I get it.

Martin

Submitted by Noirault Francois on

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Hello,
What is this hook ? I do not know !
Thank you for your response.

Jan,

I never heard of The Morton and Gold (or Silver). I can't find any references to it anywhere, and I haven't noticed Davie McPhail mentioning it either. I will check my books later today and see if I can find anything.

Martin

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Martin,

thanks for your article about my favourite feathers-for-tying-giving bird. Do you have any clue about the Scottish fly Morton and Gold (or silver), mentioned by Davie McPhail as the only fly he knows using the feathers from the GP neck?
I am using it sometimes in the tail of "my" Golden Pheasant Shrimp.

Jan

Gentlemen,
I couldn't agree more with Pete, this is a nice and quite place to exchange views on the second best way to spend time.
In my FF life I have tried a few things. Seems there are pros and cons not to live close to fishable water.
I am home to fresh water, fishing the same river in the 33rd season that is close to my birth town, now a three hour drive), and there is and I hope there always will be a fish smarter than me in the water. Besides that my job takes me to prime fishing spots on occasion at leats it used to, these days it is more Asia). That is the way I started in the salt (or as Pete puts it "where you have to rinse the tackle") on the island of Fyn in Denmark. New Zealand and Alaska flights were paid for by someone else in the better days.
I also lived 2 years a little north of Pete on Cape Anne, stripers and blues.

Pete's flies are great, as are the ones Donald showed (as said earlier I teid a few and they were successfull in the Gerrman midlands).
My tying is far from being as presentable as either of yours, but I take great pleasure from exchanging views and the occasional joke.
TL and always a hand of water under the keel (your both boat fisherman and the customary dry socks are meaningless in this case)
Florian
PS @ Pete your saltwater flies would work for Northern Pike without altering a bit. Unfortunately we are in wire tippet territory again, but large trout taking pike streamer don't care that much at least every now and then

[b:d1470f10e4]Thank you Donald...
your kind words really do mean a lot to me...
Martin is a wonderful host and has made a great place to visit and share our common and diverse interests...
This is a very civilized and safe harbour in which to spend quality time... GOOD VIBRATIONS !
The phact that I've brightened you day [or anyone's day] with my incoherent banter and photos phrom the phringe, all the better!
I appreciate any and all encouragement!
My background has been almost entirely in shore salt water... with the occasional safari off shore or to the interior where things don't need to washed off at the end of the day...
My sweet water tying is abysmally limited and basically downsized versions of what I tye for my Striper/Blue/Albie phishin'...
This November I'll be spending some quality time with Faruk Ekich [check out his "Ultimate Bobbin" and "Damaseal Vise"... amazing!] at the Int'l Fly Tying Symposium at Somerset, NJ...
I hope to be properly schooled and to return home with some fresh water phuzzie notions...
ya' know what "they" say about teaching an old dog new tricks...
weshallsee!?

This is what the soup de jour has to offer... 'more phalse albie phodder...[/b:d1470f10e4]
#1 Mustad SS Tarpon, Bill's Bodi Braid, Icelandic goat, mylar n' crystal phlash, phoil eyez, and Bug-Bond...
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#1 Mustad SS Tarpon, Bill's Bodi Braid, Super Hair, mylar phlash, and Bug-Bond...
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Submitted by Peter on

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Have been using this for the whole season and it works like a charm!
Thanks :-)

[b:3061f1a80c]I really do admire your flies, although I have been a fresh-water North Country style fly-dresser for most of the time. I have done some salt-water fishing for the smaller cousins of your targets.
I never did subscribe to the attitude that 'mackerel bashing' was strictly for the once-a-year holiday
day fishers. Some of the most exciting fishing experiences have been catching mackerel on light spinning tackle using simple sandeel/silver baitfish imitations. We don't get the tuna on this side much, certainly not to be able be able to develop an obsession with them as you have. I make no bones about it, given the chance, I would have done. I am not sorry about my fishing experience has been mainly with brown trout in our Scottish small burns (creeks), rivers and lochs, using mainly wet flies. But, fishing is fishing, and Halford and his friends were not the only so called 'purists', they can be found in all spheres of fishing, fresh water wet flies are no exception.
I think your flies are superb examples of imitations of fish food, which is what we are all trying to achieve. Great stuff, keep up the good work.. You've cheered me up a lot at 05.00 AM. [/b:3061f1a80c]

Paul,

So great to hear from you! I have thought of you many times and remembered those flies, and I have told the story about how I sent flies to Florida and how they caught tarpon! I was proud, I can tell you!

Amazing how fly-fishing and the internet can create connections.

I still have the mail you wrote - December 26th 1995 to be precise. A very nice Christmas present:

Hey Martin:
happy holidays, i hope you're still online and you receive this
note.. Stopped by the Glades the other day, first time since summer
i really checked it out... I was very surprised to see the tarpon
rolling, i threw every fly i had, until the large sized muddler you
tied, hooked and landed a 15lb pounder.. It was a memorable moment,
and loads of fun.. I'm all outta muddlers, and i need some help
with the recipe, so if you're still around, please let me know how
i'd go about creating one.. Merry Xmas..

Paul
NMB, Florida

A lot of water has passed under the bridge since then and yes, GFF has developed into something very different than it was back then - and then again it's essentially much more of the same. And by the way: it's still a hobby!

Martin

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