In the mid 1950s Weber sold a wet fly which I think they simply called a Caddis. It consisted of three sections of fine chenille, (black,white,black) in equal lengths. Recently a friend of mine was showing me some flies his father tied in that era that were very similar and used three sections also, but were, (peacock herl,ivory floss, peacock herl). This older tier was a game warden as well as a fisherman and most of his old flies we recognize but not this one. Can anyone help with it or it’s modern day counterpart?
Well, tell us about the tail, wing and throat. It might be a 'Blonde Coachman" - just making the name up - or a ‘Light Daiwal Bach’ (sp) -again making up the name, but I think we need to know more about the rest of the fly.
The local game warden version seemed to have a small golden pheasant tail. There was no hackle. beard or wing. The reason I’m curious about this is that the very similar pattern was common in upstate NY long ago and now I find the same basic fly was also common here in CT at the same time.
[This message has been edited by Ray Kunz (edited 31 January 2006).]
There were a number of coachman like that. Do you have a picture??
Joe Fox
You’ll cry when I tell you that an auction on ebay had 3 of Webers original catalouges sold.
Let me check through some of my old emails, I bought some old weber blades from a lady who said her husband had worked there.
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Fatman
[This message has been edited by Fatman (edited 31 January 2006).]
Just emailed the lady to see if she had any of the old catalouges available, will let you know when I hear something.
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