Red Quill

Tied a Red Quill last weekend. It's the elegance that strikes me every time I tie a Catskill dry fly.

The Red Quill was Art Flick's answer to imitate the male Ephemeralla subvaria. Flick used a stripped Rhode Island rooster hackle to imitate the reddish body. I don't have a Rhode Island cape so I used a brown hackle stripped quill and ‘painted’ the stem with a red marker. It turned out pretty okay 😆

Tied on a vintage (see angle of the eye) Mustad 94840 size 12

Wood duck wings

Rusty dun hackle

Joe Brooks - The Father of Modern Fly Fishing

I originally posted this on August 7, 2018

Watched the documentary Joe Brooks - The Father of Modern Fly Fishing, The Documentary. A very personal movie about the difficult early times with alcohol addiction to eventually become a famous 'fly fishing journalist' and advocator and teacher of fly fishing (incl. Lefty Kreh).

Joe Brooks' traveling to fly fishing destinations is probably the reason what we now know as fly fishing lodges all over the world. Joe Brooks' most loved place on earth was Montana and more specifically the spring creeks of Paradise Valley near Livingston.

Watch the documentary (video on demand) here.

Update Oct 10, 2020:

It's viewable for free on YouTube!