Orvis

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Plates from The book by Charles Orvis  "Fishing with the Fly"

Salmon Flies, Lake Flies  http://www.wildfisher.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=16935.msg181115#msg181115

Lake Flies  Trout Flies  http://www.wildfisher.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=16935.msg181116#msg181116

Hackles and Gnats  http://www.wildfisher.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=16935.msg181117#msg181117

Bass Flies  http://www.wildfisher.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=16935.msg181118#msg181118

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Of particular interest here are the three hackles on the bottom row. These are the hackles Cholmondely-Pennell invented for his crazy "system" of fly-fishing, a brown a yellow and a green. He did not invent any others. Why he is credited with the Black Pennell, etc  which bear his name is something of a mystery. I can only concldude that people don't read his books, or indeed other books which criticise his nonsense.

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Here are the links to the available scans;

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=Fishing%20with%20the%20fly%20orvis

The link to the Orvis Marbury book is also at the bottom. This has good quality plates;

http://www.archive.org/download/http://www.archive.org/details/favoritefliesthe00marb

http://www.archive.org/stream/favoritefliesthe00marb#page/n57/mode/2up

I will be adding these later.

TL
MC

[Fishtales]

I removed my post as the forum software is messing up the link.

I see it has done the same with your second link in the above post Mike.

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I removed my post as the forum software is messing up the link.

I see it has done the same with your second link in the above post Mike.

Indeed. I don't know why. We did a little bit of jiggery-pokery in this reference section for various reasons, and that might be causing it.

I will post in the tying section and see if that solves it.

TL
MC

[Fishtales]

This book has a few pages of fly plates too Mike.

http://www.archive.org/stream/favoritefliesthe00marb#page/n7/mode/2up

You probably have that one in your library too

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This book has a few pages of fly plates too Mike.

http://www.archive.org/stream/favoritefliesthe00marb#page/n7/mode/2up

You probably have that one in your library too

Indeed I do!   I will be posting the plates from that as well.

TL
MC