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Introducing our
protagonists
The dry fly - F M Halford
Though Frederic Halford (1844-1914) is often credited with
'inventing' the dry fly he didn't really; he rather codified and collated a
type of imitative pattern that was gradually gaining a foothold with the
fishermen of the mid-Victorian era; until that point they had mostly been
practicing across-and-downstream wet fly and dapping. But this intellectual
nicety aside there can't be much doubt that he ushered into the wider world
a method that some call the crack cocaine of fly fishing.
The nymph - GEM Skues
To some this method of fishing is still the spawn of the
devil but there can be no argument that George Skues (1858-1949) was the
inventor, bringing the same imitative rigour to sub-surface patterns that
Halford had done for those on the surface. Skues didn't get much thanks in
his lifetime, vilified by Halford's disciples, but it is a fair bet that
across the globe that for every fish caught on a dry, twenty are caught on
a nymph.
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