at right ... an early "canadian" salmon dry fly ...... the earliest post dates circa 1908 ... Majour J R Fraser detailed a set of 6 salmon dries on double hook up-eye hooks : 2 were of golden pheasant tippets tied as sedges, 4 were fan-wing mayflies ... Fraser's recommendations were : apply no oil (floatant) , fish upstream and wait for the salmon to "close its mouth" ... captures were on rivers of Eire and England...
Hardy of Pall Mall, released a second set of 6 in the 1930's ... these oversized "Halfordian" flies resembled again mayflies, but on single eyed hooks ... and no doubt were fished on the Test and Itchen waters ... I once discovered a mint unfished set in Montreal, within an enamelled flybox ... bargaining continued for many weeks with my good friend Claude Campbell of Montreal ... alas, Alf Walker of Toronto won the bid with 6 brass hand-gaffs ...
my early experiments in Gaspe : parachute winged mayflies, fan-winged bivisibles and later squirrel tailed palmers with flourescent tags... all proved successful... but the gaspe rapids demanded more robust creations as the QC-style bombers, double-hackled for extra bouyancy...
later experiments : the "excel" series ... downwing stoneflies with flouresent tags ... the excel2, featured mylar tubed extended bodies with flat buctail wings and para-hackles... see "innovative salmon fry flies" ...
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