Full Dress Atlantic Salmon Flies

[lars]

I've had these two flies since the early 80's. They were tied for me by Ted Kantner who has since passed on. He was a stone mason with sausage fingers and hands reflecting years of working with stone, but he tied amazing full dress flies. They should be mounted and framed but they just sit safely tucked away in my tying desk. I take them out once and a while and marvel at them. I thought i'd share them with you all as we welcome in another year. Enjoy them!

Happy New Year!!

 

[mt_flyfisher]

I've had these two flies since the early 80's. They were tied for me by Ted Kantner who has since passed on. He was a stone mason with sausage fingers and hands reflecting years of working with stone, but he tied amazing full dress flies. They should be mounted and framed but they just sit safely tucked away in my tying desk. I take them out once and a while and marvel at them. I thought i'd share them with you all as we welcome in another year. Enjoy them!

Happy New Year!!

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It takes a lot of skill and patience to tie those types of flies, a lot more than I’d ever have. But they’re certainly wonderful to look at.

I have several framed full dressed salmon flies hanging in what I call my fishing room. One of them is of 14 flies that I bought from the Hardy store in London back in the early 1970’s. I had no idea what patterns they were, I just went though a number of them that were stored in drawers and picked out ones that I thought were the most colorful.

Here is another one that I bought in the Portland, OR airport gift shop, of all places. I think that might have been in the 1980’s. They were tied by a guy named Andy Hatfield.