looking for patterns for some classic flies

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i’m looking for some classic patterns that i have the names of and posability some of the flies from a set i recently was given. i have looked and googled and can not find any though i did find the cow dung thanks to bugman

they are

cow dung gold,
greenwell’s glory
silver whiskey
kingfisher
red ant
red minnow
orange bundi
red palmer
orange hackle
cinnamon and gold
black spider
brown hackle
cow dung
red spider
red wiskey
brown and gold
orange spider

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Charlaine,

You can find some of the patterns by going through Donald Nicholson’s fine pattern site. http://www.dtnicolson.dial.pipex.com/ This site is very helpful for older patterns, especially those from the UK.

I’m sending in the Black, Red and Dun Spiders as a Fly of the Week submission in the morning. Great flies.

REE

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thanks just found some really old flytying books that i downloaded to go through

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try ray bergmans, “trout”. havent craked the cover on it in about 30 years, but if memeory serves me right, it probably has most if not all of what your looking for.

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GOOGLE and BING are good places to start looking for fly patterns. just type in “cow dung fly pattern” and search away. oh and check your spelling, it can get you into the seedy side of the web.

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You should be able to find recipes for some of these flies in Terry Hellekson’s [“TROUT FLIES” The Encyclopedia of the Fly Tiers Art]. (This tome is a combining of his earlier two volume treatise into a single volume–at half the price!)

It is a shame that Terry’s books aren’t any better known than they are. They are great resources for things such as this, and contain a lot of historical info on the flies listed.

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The only problem with Terry’s Fish Flies is if you have it in your lap, puts your legs to sleep after a while:p:p:p Kidding aside it’s a great book with excellent photo’s and history.

His web site is really good too

http://www.terryhellekson.com/

Fatman

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These are, almost to the fly, all flies from the British Isles. While some are found in Trout, and some in Terry’s book, most won’t be. The Whisky flies, for instance, appear to be reasonably new flies, and are listed in books such as “Trout and Salmon Flies of Wales”. Now we all know the Greenwell’s Glory, Kingdom, and of course Cowdung, but they all originated in Great Britain, as did the Spiders, etc. Are you looking for recipes? I second Donald’s site as a good starting point, and narrow your search to the U.K. The rest are in “Practical Fly Fishing” by Arundo, available here:

http://books.google.com/books?id=mKwCAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=kingdom+fly&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false

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i’m looking for photos and how to tie them yes.

thank you all for so much help.

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CharlaineC,
You might check out this website. I have found a great deal of information and patterns through it. Hope this helps!

http://www.classicflytying.com/index.php?act=flyindex

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thank you for the link i’m a member their already and am still going thrugh their data base.

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here is a good site for photo’s http://www.danica.com

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Hey Narco,

Good to see you here.

This link may work better. http://www.danica.com/flytier/ Be sure to use the search feature on Hans’ site. Tons of info here.

REE

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Terry’s site has given me new inspiration to do the opposite of what I have been starting to do, which is to use longer (1XL &2XL) hooks instead of Standard Length for my Dry Fly Patterns.

Thanks for the enlightment!

~Parnelli

PS: If anyone has any information on the fly pattern “Kemp Bug” please contact me by PM or at parnelli@comcast.net I have a Material List from Killroy.com site, and a mentioning of the fly pattern “Kemp Bug” in a Zug Bug fly pattern, but nothing else. Who was Kemp, where did he live and fish, when was the fly first used…that sort of stuff.