| I've heard people say this Brownbearblack is Al's version of a Henry
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| Wombacher fly, that used to be particularly popular on
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| Al's home river: the Beaverhead. But maybe this was an Al Troth
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| original. Does anybody know: was this originally a Wombacher pattern
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| or a Troth original? Click the "Post" link at screen top-left if
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| you know. I'd love to have the straight scoop on this.
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| I remember one beautiful evening on the Beaverhead--taking
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| a boat out at the high bridge--where I met an old Dillon
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| area fisherman who must been in his eighties. He was fishing
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| and old 7-1/2 foot Shakespear Wonder Rod with a Perrine automatic
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| fly reel, casting a brace of three snelled Wombacher flies
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| across and down. He showed his outfit. We talked about
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| a lot about forgotten flies, too many boats and the good old days.
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| He caught two or three fish while we talked, just as the sun was going down.
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| The original Potts and Wombacher flies were tied with various exotic hair fibers.
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| But Al used died monofilament instead (according to Fred Nelson
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| anyway). The hackle fibers on this fly lashed on in place, rather
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| than wound on as a pre-woven hair hackle, ala Potts Wombacher and Grant.
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Big Horn Scud
Brown Bear Black
Georges Brown Stone
Hares Ear