by Don Fine
If you read the Beginner’s Fly Tying article for April 2018, you would now know that Doug Prince was the creator of the Prince Nymph. And of course everyone knows that Lefty Kreh was the creator of the Lefty’s Deceiver and Bob Clouser, the creator of the Clouser Deep Minnow. See if you know and can answer the following questions regarding who first created the following popular flies? Answers are available in the PDF version of our April 2018 newsletter.
- Who first designed the Elk Hair caddis?
- Who designed the Adams dry fly?
- Who was the creator of the original pheasant tail nymph?
- Who was the creator of the Red Fox squirrel nymph?
- Who was the creator of the Brooks stone fly?
- Who was the creator of the Kaufmann golden stone fly nymph?
- Who tied the original sparkle caddis pupae and emerger?
- Who first tied the Griffith gnat?
- Who was the creator of the Grey Ghost?
- Who was the creator of the Copper John?
- Who was the creator of the woolly bugger?
- Who was the creator of the Black and Grizzly Wulff patterns?
Ok, so you didn’t know them all and had to Google the answers. What better way to spend a snowy afternoon when you can’t go fishing? Try learning to tie several of these flies, I like it better than friending on Facebook.