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Old NH Fly Patterns

12/16/2017

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Sharing fly patterns for many sometimes is done under secrecy.  I’ve seen guys scoot away from someone who asks them what fly they were using.  In the article on fly tying in the 1956 NH Profiles the author struggled to get quality NH patterns from local tyers.  Unfortunately, that’s the way a lot of these patterns have disappeared or changed so they no longer look like the original.  
Several people did send in patterns when they were contacted through the Fish and Game newsletter.  One person was The late Game Warden Jesse Scott of Newport and Pittsburg NH.  Not wanting the late Dick Eastman, a tyer at Camp Idlewild On the Second Connecticut Lake patterns to be forgotten.  The Connecticut River Dick (also know as the “Dick’s Killer”).
Here is the recipe and know wonder it was a killer.
Hook:  Sizes 12-8 long shank
Tail:  Golden pheasant tippet
Body:  Peacock herl
Wing:  Yellow calf tail or bucktail with mottled wood duck flank topping.  Strip of scarlet dyed duck feather along each side.  Jungle cock eye optional.

Jesse wanted the original recipe not to get loss because many tyers had changed the pattern.

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Paul
4/19/2018 12:41:22 pm

Scott, Dad and Jesse were best friends. Wish I had fished with him. Did watch him win distance fly casting bets in Newport and Newbury. P

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