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Professor
My dad had a wonderful box of brook trout flies when I was a kid, many of
them tied on eyeless hooks with gut snells. This squirrel-winged version
of the Professor was one of the patterns I recall, along with a strip-wing
version using a woodduck flank wing. This is one of my favorite patterns
for swirling into pint-sized pools on tumbling mountain streams. I just
have to tie one on my tippet to go back to those barefoot days on Beehunter
Creek.
Warden's Worry:
Developed by warden Joseph Stickney, of Saco, Maine; an old standard since
the 1920's. I originally wanted to tie this with a squirrel wing, but a
traditionalist on the list shamed me into "doin' it proper." I'm glad he
did - it looks a lot better the way that Stickney intended it. (I do have
a couple with fox squirrel wings in my bucktail wallet, but I'll be careful
who I show those to).
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