The Catskill. There seems to be some confusion how to tie it...
Maybe it's because it's Sunday morning 😁
Maybe it's because it's Sunday morning 😁
Two recipes for the Catskill in Cross' book?
In the 'early years' fly patterns were never the same. Mary Orvis, daughter of founder Charles Orvis, acknowledged this (as being a mail order company) and wrote the book 'Favourite flies and their history' (1892) to standardise the patterns (both writing and drawn pictures of the flies) so customers know what they are getting when they order flies.
Whether fly tiers like Cross and later the Dette's etc. stuck to the recipe of a pattern or altered slightly due to (temporary) shortage of materials is possible but unfortunately we will never know.
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