| This fly was tied by Todd Wester (fly tier and top-of-the-line Paradise Valley fishing guide), not Chester Marion.
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| It's the best I can do so far. The Marion Sculpin is a very
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| good fly.
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| I don't know Chester Marion and I've never met him. But I've sure
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| heard a lot about the guy. Chester was one of Dan Bailey's first
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| and best guides, way back when. Chester more or less invented winter-time
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| midge fishing, with flies he called "snow flies." I know that because of
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| an old Dan Bailey's catalog I've got somewhere that said that much.
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| Chester Marion is famous for catching giant brown trout on his Marion Sculpin.
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| Todd Wester gave me this fly about ten years ago when we both worked for
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| George Anderson at the Yellowstone Angler. Todd called this fly the "Marion Sculpin"
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| ...so I saved it instead of fishing with it.
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| I watched Todd catch a fat 20" brown on a similar fly one October
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| day on the Missouri, a few years back. Chuck Tuschmidt and I were fishing
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| itty bitty Blue Winged Olives, while Todd was working harder and with more
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| determination, dredging a deep run with a shooting head and a Marion
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| Sculpin. You can catch 20" fish on Blue Winged Olives too, if you keep at
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| it long enough. But you're a lot more likely to catch one on a sculpin fly.
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Chester Marion/