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Published Sep 26. 2010 - 13 years ago
Updated or edited Aug 8. 2015
??? cardinal
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I was salmon fishing last week in New Brunswick on the Mirimichi river ( no luck unfortunately) and I was talking to a older gentleman who was saying that when the fishing used to be this light he always, as a last resort threw a fly he called "The Cardinal". Lost a few years ago to a salmon. It was given to him and all he remembers about it was that it was red with yellow in it. I have been trying to find info on it but can't. Does anyone know of a salmon fly called "The Cardinal"
Thanks in advance
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Glenn Parkin
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Looks like this fly do not
Looks like this fly do not exist! :shock:
For fun I searched through all my known ways- there were no cardinals.. :oops:
Glenn,
Glenn,
The Cardinal implies that we're talking a red pattern. Everything that has to do with cardinals (clergymen, sports teams, birds) is red, and might the fly not be red also?
I dug into my books and looked for the Cardinal, and found a reference for it in Terry Hellekson's impressing Fish Flies. This encyclopedia refers you to the pattern Scarlet Ibis, which is tied like this:
Thread: red
Tail: red hackle fibers
Rib: embossed gold tinsel
Body: red wool
Hackle: red tied as a throat hackle
Wing: red bucktail
Head: red
The fly was originally a classical wet fly tied with Ibis feathers and had a feather wing. If you search the web for "scarlet ibis fly pattern" you will find several references.
Here's a link to the Orange Ibis, which is a lot like the Scarlet Ibis with a feather wing:
http://donbastianwetflies.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/42/
Here's a link to the fly named the Cardinal, still with a feather wing:
http://www.flytyingforum.com/pattern7692.html
Hope this helps
Martin
I am a bit late with this
[b:7b4b48f62d]I am a bit late with this info, having just got back to GFF.
This recipe for the Cardinal is in Bergman's 'Trout'.
Body: White chenille.
Hackle: White.
Wing: Cardinal red.
It is a typical North American wet fly and very simple to dress.
Bigger hook for salmon,
smaller for trout.[/b:7b4b48f62d]