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David... I took a look at the Cutt-Bait and you are
right, the "nothing new" comes really close with the exception of the rear
tie-down of the rabbit strip and the bead eyes. Thanks for the reference,
will being tying up the Cutt-Bait to compare the two
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Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 2:39
PM
Subject: RE: Searuns & Coho at Dawn -
Brief Report
The pattern of chartreuse rabbit fur on a
hook sounds like one of my favorite SRC flies cutt-bait. My first
experience with this fly was a guy gave me one after he fished it at Lion's
Field in Bremerton. About 6 months later I found the pattern on www.flyanglersonline.com
. I have always wondered if the guy that gave it to me was the same
one that wrote the article for FAOL. The article was based out of
Port Orchard. Connecting the "wing" at two spot sounds like a matuka
style fly. I agree with you that there probably aren't any "new" flies
but boy are there jillions of variations. Recently a major flytying
magazine had an article on a "new" style fly. Basically it was a nymph
with it's own strike indicator. Boy were they embarrassed when they
received numerous letters from Catskill (NY) fisherman who claimed this
style was over 50 years old. Needless to say the tiers and the editor of
the magazine probably had over 100 years aggregate tying experience but had
never seen this style. Things that make you go hmmm.
Flig
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