I was fishing a mountain stream in Washington yesterday and stopped getting hits on my go to fly patterns. Happened to have a Pink Lady in my fly box. Instantly, the native Westslope Cutthroat trout hit it. Found this video and going to tie up more for future outings. Thanks for the story and tying demonstration.
Pretty interesting about the guy at NY and his stocks!! He was already a rich guy and after that we can only imagine!! I like the colors and honestly, the name as well 🤭🤭 Don't ask why haha. Tail looks amazing as well!!! Cool all around!
Thank you! And yep, I'll finish the video if I only make a couple of mistakes. Sometimes though, it could be a disaster and I just scrap the whole thing. Nobody sees those flies. :-)
Hi Matt, thanks for the link, got it off the Royal Lady video. Nice fly, great history research too - you da man! Those upright wings, great job btw, reminded of the "dial a box" flies I use to buy at K-mart before I started to "roll my own", they worked great for crappie. Seems I've heard of LaBranche before, also "pink" bodied flies. Maybe in that Ian Whitelaw history of fly fishing in 50 flies book. I think in that book there's maybe a story of red fly that the color washed out to a pink? Then the fly was a killer. I know I read that somewhere. Better than than finding the urine stained belly fur of a vixen ( female fox ) for the body on a Hendrickson dry fly. Thank you Matt🥸👍
Thanks Joe! I don't recall a story about George LaBranche in Whitlaw's book. Not to say there isn't one, but I haven't pulled that one down in a while. K-mart's "dial a box?" Oh my... you're dating yourself there! 🤣
Enjoyed watching this one. I am curious. Do people collect these or are they made purely for function? I can imagine a display case full of handmade flies.
Some people do collect them, usually the fancier salmon flies are more for display than fishing. These simpler trout flies are for actual fishing. But we do put them in shadow boxes sometimes and it can make pretty cool wall art. (If you're a fisherman!)
