The Mickey Finn was first tied sometime in the 19th century by Charles Langevin of Québec and originally known there as the "Langevin".
John Alden Knight of NY popularized the fly in the U.S. in 1937 as the "Assassin". In the U.S. it originally had the uninspired name of "Red and Yellow Bucktail". Gregory Clark of the Toronto Star newspaper, renamed it once more, this time the "Mickey Finn" after the famous knockout drink.
An excerpt from Wikipedia:
In The History of Fly Fishing in Fifty Flies (2015), Ian Whitelaw writes:
In 1937 Knight wrote and article about the fly in Hunting and Fishing that fired the popular imagination. Its publication coincided with the Sportsmen’s Show in New York, and it was estimated that as many as a half a million Mickey Finns were tied and sold during the show. The manufacturers, the Weber Lifelike Fly Company of Wisconsin, who had advertised the fly in the same magazine, were overwhelmed by orders for Mickey Finns from across the country.
- Ian Whitelaw (2015)
This fly was taken from the book "A Compendium of Canadian Fly Patterns" by Robert H. Jones and Paul C. Marriner, Gale's End Press, Fly Fishing Canada Publications, 2006.
4 янв 2024
