Great read.
As long as I’ve been in our club , we’ve had an old farm labourer and mole catcher, while everyone was aspiring to fish upstream the rising fish, he was pragmatically emptying the hollows and feeding his neighbours with his Alexandra’s. It never varied.
Once fishing shops got scarce and the internet took over retail, old Bernard was isolated from an easy source. So I’d grab him ten at the start of each Season from Farlows on the Mall ( and hide the price from him he would be appalled
).Even since we stopped stocking and went C+R , he’s still using them, whether he’s gone barbless I darent ask!
Last week in the Lake District I had no intention of fishing then realised I was missing a trick with the nearby pike lake. I had a basic fly tying kit with me and improvised some Budgie sized flys to toss out into the likely spots. I had some old silver Krystal flash hidden deep in the shadows of disgrace( for this dry fly boy!) and tied some bright red streamer fur in for under the belly and the tail , I was scraping it but thinking of the Char in the lakes heading for the shallower margins now to breed, as some kind of logic.
So, for the green back I put a hank of the Peacock I had with me. It was looking good and pulsed beautifully when retrieved in the shallows, then realised I’d basically made a canary sized Alexandra, there’s no getting away from it as a pattern it seems!
Pom
I do Nothing everyday .
