| This little book of flies, transcribed
from a meticulously kept hand-written notebook and published here for
the first time (August 2007), lists detailed dressings of the many fly
patterns used by the author in a lifetime of fly fishing on the Clyde
and other Scottish waters. In listing over 150 trout fly dressings, many
of them little known beyond the Clyde valley, Tom Forsyth has given us a
valuable insight into the kind of trout flies which were popular in
Scotland throughout the twentieth century. Of particular interest to the
modern trout fly fisherman and fly tyer will be the dressings of the
many “Clyde Style” flies, patterns unique to that great Scottish trout
and grayling fishing river. Also included is a helpful Monthly Guide to
Clyde Wet Flies, which lists the flies appropriate for each month
throughout the fishing season on the River Clyde. |
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a page
in Tom Forsyth's book |
CONTENTS
Page 1
· Orange
Quill
·
Red Spider
·
Kite’s Imperial
·
Maxwell’s Red
·
Maxwell’s Blue
· Black Gnats
Page 2 ·
Oliver Kite’s
Copper Wire Nymph
·
Woodcock Sedge
·
“The PolyMay” Mayfly
·
Female
Sub-Imago
·
July Dun
Page 3
·
Large Dark Olive
(wet fly)
·
John Storey
·
The Infallible
·
White Moth
·
Olive Sun Nymph
Page 4 ·
The Loopwing
·
Russell’s Grannom
·
Goldie
·
Cran Swallow (Clyde
Fly)
·
Blue Upright (Clyde
Fly)
·
Hen Blackie (Clyde Fly)
Page 5 ·
“Fireflies” that kill at dusk
·
Tony’s Nymph
·
Clipped Butcher
·
Lucky Alphonse
·
The Driffield Dun
·
Hatching Olive
Page 6 ·
Problems of the Smut
·
Mayfly
· The Bluebottle
Spider ·
Greenwell’s Quill
·
Dark Olive Dun
Page 7 ·
Medium Olive Dun
·
Pale Olive Dun
·
Pale Olive Dun
·
Rough Olive
·
Black Midge
·
March Brown
·
Iron Blue Dun
Page 8 ·
Black Spider
·
Red Quill
·
Blue Hen Spider
· Sand Fly
· Badger
Hackle
·
Corncrake Sedge
· Cinnamon
Sedge
·
Grannom or
Greentail
Page 9
·
Black Sedge
·
Needle Brown
·
Grayling Fiddler
·
Zulu
·
Hare
Lug
·
Wren Tail
·
Grayling Witch
·
Welshman’s
Butty
·
Grey Spider
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Page 10
·
Teal and
Black
·
Reid’s
Assassin
·
Waterhen Bloa
·
Partridge Tail and
Black ·
March Brown
· Dark
Olive ·
Greenwell
· Iron Blue Dun
Page 11
·
Black
Spider ·
Greenwell
Spider
·
Blae and Harelug
·
Hen Blackie
·
Blae and Black
·
Blue Winged Olive
· Cock
Pheasant Tail
Page 12
·
Gold
Ribbed Hare’s Ear
·
Waterhen
and Black
· Cowdung
· Starling
Tip ·
Blae and
Yellow
·
Medium Olive
·
Sand Fly
Page 13
·
Yellow Doctor
· White
Tip
·
Red Tag
· Teal and Red
·
Coch-Y-Bondhu
· Partridge Tail and Red
·
Blue Dun
·
Blue Quill
Page 14 ·
Dark Patridge and Orange
·
Light Partridge and
Yellow
·
Lark and
Grey ·
Red Sedge
· Woodcock and Hare’s Ear
· Rough
Olive
·
Tupp’s
Indispensible
·
Ash Dun
Page 15 ·
Grouse Hackle
·
Black Gnat
·
Blae and Ginger
·
Needle
Brown ·
Hawthorn
·
Corncrake
·
Marled Corncrake
·
Cinnamon Sedge
·
Badger Dun
Page 16
·
Pale Evening Dun
·
Butcher
· Whitechurch Dun
·
Grannom
· Green Insect
· Saltoun
·
Little Brown Dun
· Guinea Fowl and Red
· Cran
Swallow
·
Mavis
and Black
Page 17
A MONTHLY GUIDE TO CLYDE WET FLIES
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Page 18
·
Grey Hen
and Green
· Grey Hen
and Rusty
·
Grey Hen and Yellow
· Grey Hen
and Orange
· Grey Hen
and Red
· Badger
and Quill
· Badger and Yellow
· Badger
and Orange
·
Badger and Red
Page 19
· Black
Spider ·
March
Brown Spider
·
Red Spider
· Dark
Olive ·
Blue Winged Olive
·
Medium Olive
· Light
Olive ·
Blue Upright
Page 20 ·
Blue Dun
· Iron
Blue Dun·
Rough
Olive ·
Coch-Y-Bondhu
·
Tupp’s Indispensible
·
Greenwell Spider
· Black
Gnat
· Pheasant Tail
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Page 21
·
March
Brown Immature
· March
Brown Mature
·
Iron Blue Immature
· Iron
Blue Mature
·
Greenwell Immature
· Greenwell Mature
· Blue
Winged Olive Immature
· Blue
Winged Olive Mature
Page 22 ·
Light
Olive Immature
· Light Olive Mature
·
Pale Watery Immature
· Pale
Watery Mature
· Large
Pale Watery Immature
· Large
Pale Watery Mature
·
Blue Dun Immature
· Blue Dun
Mature ·
Claret
Immature
· Claret Mature
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