"Desperately Seeking Salmon Flies"
WHAT'S YOUR IDEA of a perfect day of fly fishing? A high catch rate? Good company and a reasonable challenge? Gorgeous scenery and a few beautiful fish? As Willoughby Johnson writes this week, sometimes knowing what amounts to perfection requires summoning both honesty and imagination. Read his new essay "Desperately Seeking Salmon Flies."
"Tap’s Bug is named for H.G. Tappley, a columnist for Field & Stream magazine, notes Tim Flagler. "Mr. Tappley loved bass fishing and was well known for his simple, yet tremendously effective, deer hair bass bugs." Watch him tie this simple yet very effective fly.
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