Speyducer
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Release to spawn another day
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Post by Speyducer on Oct 2, 2007 22:04:08 GMT
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tweedsider
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Quietness is best
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Post by tweedsider on Oct 3, 2007 7:01:15 GMT
Sounds like the crazy paving one. "Cement slabs releaed into the community."
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fruity
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Post by fruity on Oct 3, 2007 7:21:08 GMT
I keep hearing about the Spey pages being dull and bland as a result of over moderation, but I see that moderation doesn't extend to censoring such daft postings.
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Post by Willie Gunn on Oct 3, 2007 8:39:50 GMT
Perhaps the famous Ali Shrimp should be renamed a Tam's Shrimp!
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fruity
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Post by fruity on Oct 3, 2007 8:43:41 GMT
Or perhaps in order to correctly credit the person who invented a certain fly, the Willie Gunn should be renamed the Dusty Miller.
How do you feel about being called Dusty?
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Post by Willie Gunn on Oct 3, 2007 8:48:51 GMT
Or perhaps in order to correctly credit the person who invented a certain fly, the Willie Gunn should be renamed the Dusty Miller. How do you feel about being called Dusty? But if you read the story Willie Gunn never claimed to have invented the fly, Dusty Miller tied up 3 or 4 patterns and they were lying on the counter in Rob Wilson's tackle shop when Willie Gunn walked in. Rob Wilson asked him which one he liked best and he picked one up, took it to the River Brora and caught 4 salmon the rest is history. Never did Willie Gunn claim to be out in a fishing boat!!
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fruity
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Post by fruity on Oct 3, 2007 8:58:43 GMT
Now that you've told me that I just don't know what to do with myself, perhaps I'll go downtown where the lights are bright....
Seriously, thanks for pointing that out to me.
While I found the layered version ok I now use the mixed hair variety all the time. In fact I think there is something quite special about mixed hair wings, almost as if they suggest movement and life in themselves. I suspect fish may see them in terms we would see when looking into a kaleidoscope.
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Post by bawbag on Oct 3, 2007 14:05:26 GMT
sorry, i cant read any links to speypages as i got banned earlier this year. all i get is a message telling me im banned for ever !
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Post by Willie Gunn on Oct 3, 2007 15:05:03 GMT
sorry, i cant read any links to speypages as i got banned earlier this year. all i get is a message telling me im banned for ever ! You bad bad boy what did you do critise a sponsor or suggest that there was too much censorship? Or even write a post that was supposed to be humerous but not to Canadians?
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Post by bawbag on Oct 3, 2007 15:16:43 GMT
hi malcolm. i told you what happened earlier in the year when i was at carron with james. i posted a light hearted message about who would win the spey casting competition at kelso and got banned for it.
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fruity
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Post by fruity on Oct 3, 2007 15:18:10 GMT
Did you swear or make libelous remarks?
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Post by bawbag on Oct 3, 2007 15:21:13 GMT
nope, just a light hearted post about who would win the competition.
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fruity
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Post by fruity on Oct 3, 2007 15:24:26 GMT
I've got instructions on how to get around banned status, PM on the way in a few minutes.
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Post by Willie Gunn on Oct 3, 2007 15:56:58 GMT
hi malcolm. i told you what happened earlier in the year when i was at carron with james. i posted a light hearted message about who would win the spey casting competition at kelso and got banned for it. nope, just a light hearted post about who would win the competition. Thought it was yopu but wasn't sure, Canadians have a poor sense of humour.
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Q-n-Q
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Post by Q-n-Q on Oct 3, 2007 17:02:11 GMT
WG it's nice to see someone else who actually knows the WG story.
Dusty Miller (Forres/Kinloss) conifirmed the story to me earlier this year through a friend by email.
Dusty says he tied it in 1957, used it that season and landed 208 salmon and grilse, and an amazing 800 sea trout. He kept it to him self until he came back from Malta in 1962
The first one was tied with black floss on the body, ribbed with gold oval tinsel and orange yellow and black bucktail tied very long. He tied Silver, Gold and the standard black version as we know it today. The Silver worked well and the Gold was even better. It was rarely tied on a hook but usually on a tube or waddington (probably the Brora Shank too since it was Rob who invented the Brora shank)
He says Wille Gunn was the ghillie and he took 6 fish on the first day and 4 on the second day. It had no name at the time and, in Rob's shop, they decided to call it Willie Gunn.
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robbie
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Post by robbie on Oct 3, 2007 17:03:47 GMT
Willie Gunn - 1957 Nowhere near as old as it looks then !!!
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Q-n-Q
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Post by Q-n-Q on Oct 3, 2007 17:11:10 GMT
The fly was tied in 1957
I don't know how old he was then, I think he's 75 or so now
Correction sorry Rob buddy I thought you meant him :-)
Hairwing flies are not really that old, WG maybe, will tell us the date of the first hairwing the Hairy Mary. (John Redpath)
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fruity
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Post by fruity on Oct 3, 2007 17:15:37 GMT
Dear QnQ (Or should that be dark horse?)
Dusty will last a lot longer if you give him your tonic, the tonic you must be taking to be 107!
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Q-n-Q
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Post by Q-n-Q on Oct 3, 2007 17:22:42 GMT
Do tell me how you know my age
It does not show on my profile
Correction Forget that fruity it did show as 107 (computers eh)
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fruity
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Post by fruity on Oct 3, 2007 17:24:36 GMT
It doesn't now.
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