And do you still have it?. 8)
As per my previous post, I'm new to tying, after a couple of trips to GAC and some online orders, I seem to have everything for a few patterns. My first fly will be a PTN, mainly as it looks fairly simple, and I'll use/lose lots of them!.
I'll post up a pic once I get it tied, and work out how to post an image!.
Black spider back in 1967 and no I don't still have it! ;)
Aye, I don't imagine many folk will have their first fly tbh!
Black Spider
To be honest I cant remember! However I do recall buying the flytying kit from Crocketts hardware/Ironmongers in Glasgow which had a hunting/ fishing dept upstairs.
Carrot nymph which I copied from one of the fishing mags I think. Which was a tapered body of bright orange seals fur, gold tinsel/ wire (cant remember) and pheasant tail thorax cover. No idea how they came up with the name ;D Caught a stockie rainbow on it but had only tied one amd it swallowed it deep. Recovered the fly when gutting it. No idea what happened to it after that
Soldier Palmer. Long gone :)
A black bibio thing that I decided to cut the hackle on. I've no idea why I did that.
I think my first fly was a black and peacock spider. Also long gone.
a red tag
Pretty sure it was a Red Tag or Black Pennel, Kilmaurs Fly Tying Club circa 1984.
A Black Spider, was around 12yrs when my Dad took me to fly tying lessons at Govan High School night classes.
My first purchases were black cobblers wax, black hackles & black Naples silk. All kept in an old OXO tin. Fly has long gone but still have some of the wax even after 60 years. I do have a size 12 Curry Shrimp that was given by the resident instructor that.caught my first Salmon some years later. 9lb it was from Coolies Lynn on the River Endrick. Others I have kept are a dry size 16 Cinnamon Sedge that took a 6lb + Brown from Balgray Reservoir (Not a stockie). A size 14 Woodcock & Mixed that took a dozen good Clyde Trout one Spring day down stream from Wolf Clyde Bridge. Probably a few others tucked away somewhere
Tight Lines
Some nice memories by the sounds of that Highlander.
@stonepark I wonder if there's still a fly tying club around Kilmaurs, apparently there's one in Dreghorn that I'll hopefully get to post season.
Quote from: GallowayBlueline on May 17, 2022, 10:16:09 AM
Some nice memories by the sounds of that Highlander.
@stonepark I wonder if there's still a fly tying club around Kilmaurs, apparently there's one in Dreghorn that I'll hopefully get to post season.
Unfortunately, I have no idea, something tells me it was associated with Kilmaurs Angling Club at the time when they still had access to North Craig reservoir before it was drained?
Dreghorn is only 4-5 miles away so it may be your best bet.
Like Highlander mine was a Black spider . I can still remember catching a 10" brownie on it and feeling chuffed. Sadly, the fly unravelled shortly after.