Walter & Group....
"Status thunderstormicus" this morning. Cancelled my fishing.
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From Rick Whoorwood:
"Ex Mortua Manu"
"KICK"
"Sedge" (Caddis)
"Grannom" (Caddis)
"Smutting"
"Curse"
"Brace" (caught trout's)
"Red tag"
"Alder" (Not the tree) (Fly)
"Piscivorous trout"
"Iron-blue" (Mayfly)
"Little Chap"
"Coch-y-bondhu" (Chicken feather)
"Whipping the gut"
"Celluloid varnish" ( head cement, and possibly use on rods)
Rick
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Rick... You get an E for effort. Brave for any of us to have attemped this.
Gordy
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Answers from Elie Beerton. My brief comments in his text in red italics. More detailed comments below his answers. G.:
"Ex Mortua Manu" (... libera nos domine") I would translate it: " Think outside the box !" YES.
"KICK" : The way the hackle stands. To be used on wet flies. A few turns of silk behind the hackle will make each fibre stand out and will add action to the fly. YES.
"Sedge" :A general name for caddis. YES.
"Grannom"A caddis "Brachycentrus subnubilis " typical is the "grannom green" eggsac. The Grannom is appearing very early in the season. CORRECT !
"Smutting": The "sipping rise" of the trout when small ,tiny, dark (black) insects are on the menu. YES.
"Curse" : When trout are feeding on the small white "caenis" anglers often start to swear. It is not the easiest hatch to catch some trout. The reason this hatch is called "Anglers Curse". CORRECT.
"Brace": The catch of a pair of trout YES.
"Red tag": Name of a fly. Brown hackle, peacock body and a tag (tail) of red floss or wool. Excellent fly for grayling. YES. (Also used to describe the red tail itself on other flies.)
"Alder" (Not the tree): Flyfishers name for the "Sialis". The silhouette of the alder is similar like a caddis but it is no family. Trout is often interested in the nymph stage, not in the dry fly stage. CORRECT.
"Piscivorous trout": Trout which is feeding on (small) fish. YES.
"Iron-blue": Dark steel gray colour. Iron blue dun: Flyfishers name for the "Baetis niger/muticus" YES.
"Little Chap": A fly pattern. YES.
"Coch-y-bondhu" Welsh flypattern. A beetle imitation. YES.
"Whipping the gut": Eyeless hooks where still availible. When you tied a fly the first you need to do is to tie some length of gut on the hook which can later be knotted to the leader or to form an eye (bigger flies). CORRECT.
"Celluloid varnish" Celluloid dissolved in acetone. YES.
Regards,
Elie
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Elie .... WOW !
You get my full CONGRATULATIONS on these answers .
I'm curious .... did you get this information from reading Paul Schullery's book ... or from the writings of Skues ? .... or did you have another source ?
The first one, "Ex Mortua Manu" is a little tricky. Skues used it to mean a departure or escape from what he considered the fly tied with the "dead hand"...... ie. a fly tied strictly by dogged adherance to the dictum of the past with no attempt at innovation. Your translation is in keeping with his use. THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX !
"Whipping the gut" does refer to the gut eye tied into the fly in lieu of a metal hook eye. It also refers to the tie of a length of "gut" into the body and head of the fly by some early U.S. salmon fishermen. We did that prior to WW II to form what is now called the "shock tippet" or "bite tippet" for use in salt water. (As you know, very few anglers attempted salt water fly fishing back then.)
Last year, there occurred a "reinvention" of this technique in the tying of tarpon flies to imitate the Palolo worm which hatches in profusion here in the Florida Keys evenings on specific tide and moon phases. When this happens, millions of these creatures hatch and in the form of 1" - 1 1/2" stiff worms swimming rapidly over the flat on the surface always in a Southwest direction in response to a variety of conditions including the setting sun. Thousands of tarpon appear to gorge themselves on these worms. Sometimes these tarpon are locked on to eating these worms and are not to be tempted by any fly which doesn't look or act like these little worms. These fish become more and more selective each year as these tarpon, some of which are over 50 years old return on their annual migration.
Just as in the dim past, the shock tippet is tied directly into the fly so that the "head" actually covers the hook eye. We now use fluorocarbon instead of silk worm "gut".
The last one, "Celluloid varnish" was still being used as a head cement for tying flies by my grandfather as late as 1939 ! Then (I was a boy of nine building model airplanes) we started using what we called "airoplane glue" .... a simple clear acrylic not too different from modern fingernail polish.
YOU GET A 100% GRADE !
Gordy
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SALMON-EATING WOLVES
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Here is something I didn't know.... from Jason Borger :
Gordy--There was a great show on PBS a couple of years ago on the wolves of southern Alaska that are salmon eaters. Not just a salmon or two here or there, but focused on the fish. Might be avail as DVD from PBS here in the States. If that wolf/salmon shot was taken at Brooks, it was not one of the wolves I am thinking of from the show.
Hi Gordy,
Here is a link to a video of the wolf catching the salmon.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=20839407
Lewis
Lewis Hinks, BSc.,
Regional Director, NS
Atlantic Salmon Federation (www.asf.ca)
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