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Fly Tying Scotland Blog
9M ago
Salmon is the common name for several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the family Salmonidae, which are native to tributaries of the North Atlantic and North Pacific basin. Other closely related fish in the same family include trout, char, grayling, whitefish, lenok and taimen.Salmon are typically anadromous ..read more
Fly Tying Scotland Blog
11M ago
Salmo marmoratus, the marble trout, is a species of freshwater fish in the family Salmonidae. It is characterized by a distinctive marbled color pattern and high growth capacity. The marble trout is found in only a handful of drainages and rivers of the Adriatic basin in (going from north to ..read more
Fly Tying Scotland Blog
11M ago
Alfred Ronalds was an English author, artisan and Australian pioneer, best known for his book The Fly-fisher's Entomology.Ronalds began fly fishing with his family as a child, learning the craft on rivers near their homes around London. The detailed research for The Fly-fisher's Entomology was conducted on the River Blithe ..read more
Fly Tying Scotland Blog
1y ago
Lee Wulff (February 10, 1905 – April 28, 1991), born Henry Leon Wulff, was an artist, pilot, fly fisherman, author, filmmaker, outfitter and conservationist who made significant contributions to recreational fishing, especially fly fishing and the conservation of Atlantic Salmon.Lee learned to fish at an early age in the rivers ..read more
Fly Tying Scotland Blog
1y ago
Brown Trout: 44 poundsSeumas Petrie is the world record holder, with a 44-pound, 5-inch brown trout that measured 38.58 inches long with a 34-inch girth. Petrie caught the trout in Twizel, New Zealand’s (South Island) Ohau Canal on Oct. 27, 2020. He was using an Okuma rod with a Shimano ..read more
Fly Tying Scotland Blog
1y ago
Cutthroat Trout: 41 poundsThe biggest cutthroat on record is a 41-pounder caught Dec. 1, 1925 on Pyramid lake in Nevada by John Skimmerhorn. No other details are known about that catch. The biggest cutthroat ever taken with fly tackle is a 35-inch, 19-pound fish that slurped in a wooly bugger ..read more
Fly Tying Scotland Blog
1y ago
The biggest tiger trout on record was caught June 26, 2021 by Caylun Peterson in Washington state’s Loon Lake. The trout weighed 24 pounds, 8 ounces and measured 34.50 inches long with a 25-inch girth. Peterson was fishing with a Shakespeare rod and Okuma reel. The fish ate a nightcrawler.Tigers ..read more
Fly Tying Scotland Blog
1y ago
Hardbody PopperThis is the fly most people think of when they say, “bream bug.” Built most often of a painted cork bodywith guinea hackle, bream poppers come in at least forty-seven colors and feather schemes—solid colors,half-and-halfs, polka-dot patterns, frog patterns, and stripes—and with and without rubber legs. They allhave their ..read more
Fly Tying Scotland Blog
1y ago
An angler recently broke his brother’s 22-year-old state record in Hawaii. On August 30, Michael Matsunaga caught a 25.95-pound octopus near Turtle Bay using fish and squid as bait. He was fishing at a depth of 400 feet deep—and once he reeled his quarry up and got it aboard his ..read more
Fly Tying Scotland Blog
1y ago
The panfish category is a catch-all class of fish that takes in bluegill, redbreast, redears, greens, longears, warmouth, perch, crappie, and possibly even rock bass—if by panfish you mean a fish that rarely grows so large it won’t fit in a skillet. Panfish in farm ponds, lake coves, and creeks ..read more