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Although many angling writers credit Lee Wulff with the Royal Wulff, Q. L. Quackenbush, an early member of the Beaverkill Trout Club above Lew Beach in New York is often cited as the creator. In 1929–30 both Quackenbush and Wulff had independently modified the Royal Coachman pattern, particularly the Fanwing Royal Coachman with hair wings and ...
Grizzly Wulff - distinguished by a yellow floss or fur body, brown wings and tail and mixed brown and grizzly hackle; Montana Wulff - attributed to Allen Knox (1960s) [9] Royal Wulff - a Wulff style derived from the Royal Coachman; Were Wulff - attributed to Gary LaFontaine body of hare's ear dubbing [10] White Wulff
Royal Wulff dry fly. In 1930, Lee Wulff designed three innovative dry flies to fish with on the Esopus and other Catskill rivers. He called the flies the Ausable Gray, Coffin May and Bucktail Coachman. They were high floating, full bodied flies with hair wings and tails. They proved exceptionally effective for trout and salmon in fast rivers.
When Lee Wulff first designed the Royal Wulff, based on contemporary Catskill patterns, he'd intended to name it "Bucktail Coachman," referencing the bucktail wings he'd added for better flotation. Fellow fisherman and conservationist Dan Bailey insisted that he call them "Wulffs" and began tying them under that name.
A #12 Royal Wulff dry fly, a Royal Coachman derivative. The Royal Coachman and its derivatives are considered attractor patterns, or as Dave Hughes in Trout Flies – The Tier's Reference (1999) calls them – searching patterns – as they do not resemble any specific insect or baitfish. [3]
Fly patterns may or may not have an image or drawing of the finished fly to guide the tyer. Historically, fly patterns have been included in texts that discuss fishing with a particular genre of fly, fly-fishing technique or fly-fishing for specific species or genre of gamefish. There are, however, texts that are pure fly pattern and tying ...
Royal Coachman – The Lore and Legends of Fly-Fishing. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0684842467. while giving due respect to the elders of Fly-Fishing history, Schullery celebrates some lesser-known fisherman and some seldom-appreciated waters, such as the limestone streams of Pennsylvania. He muses on the pursuit of the ever-more ...
The addition of light cream colored or white hackle at the front of the darker body made the Bi-visible easier for the angler to see on the water. Ray Bergman in his seminal 1952 work Trout gave the following credit to the Bi-visible pattern: I gave Bivisible flies complete and indisputable credit.