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Waterhen Bloa

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Published on Aug 28. 2020 - 4 years ago
Updated or edited 4 years ago

Wet flies

Soft hackles and spiders

Fly Tying a Classic North Country Spider Waterhen Bloa from Pritt’s classic book North Country Flies. The Waterhen Bloa a classic soft-hackled north country wet fly dressed by Robert L Smith and featuring authentic and vintage flytying materials. www.theslidingstream.net
Waterhen Bloa
Hook: Size 14 Partridge SUD2
Silk: Vintage Yellow
Body: Yellow Silk Dubbed With The Fur Of A Water-rat
Hackle: Waterhen Undercovert

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When it comes to books, there's nothing I like more than focus. A book that has a well defined subject and covers in depth rather than broad has my vote already before I have opened it.
When I then open it and find well structured, thoroughly researched and beautifully presented content from cover to cover, I'm sold!
Such a book is Robert L. Smith's "The North Country Fly".

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Plu Stiniog

Jul 1. 2011

The story of this books is a fascinating one. The author Emrys Evans passed away in 2008 at the age of 91. In his life he had collected Welsh fly patterns. He was also a historian of Welsh fishing, and kept notes about the flies. After his death these notes were turned into a book manuscript by Geraint Vaughan Jones and the flies were photographed by his son-in-law Gareth Tudor Jones.

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