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[Jim QUimby]

Hello

I am Jim Quimby, Ski Patrol Director at Saddleback Ski Area in Rangeley Maine, USA. Most of Saddleback?s ski trails are named after Fly Fishing Flies (mostly Carrie Stevens Streamers). I am trying to locate the pattern or description and/or picture for five flies that I can not find any information about.

Little Inky Boy (salmon fly?)

Intimidator

Thrombosis

Sneaky Pete (not the bass jig)

Peachy?s Peril, tied by Richard Frost, Rangeley Maine

If you know any information on any of these flies I would greatly appreciate your help. Thank you very much.

My e-mail is skibum@megalink.net
Phone 207-864-0922

Sincerely Jim Quimby

Jim,

I haven't seen it but there's a book specifically about Carrie Stevens. Maybe it has those patterns. If not, another book to search is 'Forgotten Flies' by Schmookler & Sils. If I can locate my copy of this book I'll post any information I find.

Allan

[LadyFisher]

Not in Forgotten Flies, already tried that, also not in Fly Patterns and Their Origins...

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LadyFisher, Publisher of
FAOL

[caibill]

Not in "Flies" by Leonard, and not in "Fishing Flies" by Blades.

Sorry.



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I fly fish the salt because the voices in my head tell me to...

Jim,

Add this to the list of books without those patterns: Bates' STREAMER FLY TYING AND FISHING.

Perhaps you have some additional information, where you happened upon these names, or is this just a delayed April Fools goosechase?

Allan

[GrayGhost]

the fly Little Inky Boy by George Kelson 1908
Tag: silver twist and two turns of crimson Berlin wool
Tail: a topping, a point of the tippet imitation of the Querula Cruenta and a narrow strip of Summer Duck
Butt: black herl
Body: thick black horsehair, closely coiled
Hackle: from the centre of body of Tourocou crest
Throat: a buttercup yellow furnace hackle
Wings: Golden Pheasant tippet in strands, unbarred Mandarin drake, a right and left hand claret strand of Tourocou, two narrow strips of Summer Duck, a suspicion of gallena and a topping.

found it on the link [url=http://www.flyfishinghistory.com/salmon_fly.htm:1b074]http://www.flyfishinghistory.com/salmon_fly.htm[/url:1b074]
Ghost