“Sunken Treasures” is my first piece for Field & Stream, and you can read it in the August 2016 issue. The article is a wet fly primer that is based on my “Wet Flies 101” class and presentation. For those interested in learning the ways of the wet fly, this is a good starting point. And it goes without saying that I’m grateful for your readership, both in print and here on the site. Here’s a link to the online version of the article.
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The cover.
And the title page. I tied many of the flies pictured.
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Way to go Steve! Congratulations.
Thanks, Alton.
Nice! My Field & Stream was sitting on my coffee table for a couple weeks. Finallyopened it to the ‘trout article’ and thought I recognizedthe authors name from Upcountry or somewhere. Very cool.
Steve S.
I guess I’m a “hey, I know that guy” kind of guy. I hope you like the article. Would love to talk to you about your cane rods sometime.
Hi Steve,
Your article ” Sunken treasures” Is a wealth of information and I keep mining it and Highlighting key points. Soon the entire article will be in Flourescent. Yellow.
I also really enyoy your website.
If you recall I tied up some of the Pale watery wingless for our Upper Dela trip and had excellent success during the sulphur hatch. I tried tying up Pat Torrey.s tiny BWO but they are too much of a challenge for my thumb fingered hands. So If you can direct me to where i can purchase some I would appreciate it.
Finally, I’ve been looking for tying instructions for the old English soft hackle called the Smut no. 1, but cannot find anything about it.Do you have a picture and instructions for the Smut no. 1 ?
If the Smut no. 1 ( I love that name) works half as good as the Pale watery wingless I gotta try to tie some.
Thanks Again
Doug D.
p.s. my new email has changed slightly from my old one
Doug,
The Smut No. 1 is a very simple tie: black wool body (use a single strand from a multi-ply or use UNI wool) and a white or cream hen hackle. Size 20-26. Small and sparse! I like to dust it with Frog’s Fanny and fish it like a dry. And thanks for your kind words.
Thanks Steve, sorry for the delay but I was at deer camp chasing whitetails. Should have brought the fly rod. One more q..you have any history on the smut no. 1 ? Such as originator
Thanks
My goodness, no. It’s an old English pattern, named for smutting trout (trout sipping something tiny). I pulled it out of Sylvester Nemes’ Tiny Soft Hackles book.
Thanks again. That helps a lot. I have one of his books on soft hackles but I don’t think I have that one .