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Social Corner / Re: Why 'Brown' Trout

« Last post by Terry Coging on 31/03/2024 at 21:01 »

Maybe to differentiate from sea trout when sea trout were plentiful? Or was it the north Americans and Steelheads?
Having said that, I've got a chart on my office wall picturing 21 trout of North America - and just one is named a brown trout!   
There are also 5 salmon, 7 char and 3 whitefish including the grayling.
I'm headed up to Lough Melvin shortly where there are Soneghan, Gillaroo and sea trout among the mix. It has been a long debate about what a pure brown trout is by definition. Sub species or different? Certainly habitat makes big changes to the same species.

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Social Corner / Why 'Brown' Trout

« Last post by Sandy Nelson on 31/03/2024 at 17:49 »

I often wonder why we call them Brownies

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Social Corner / Re: Old Tee shirt

« Last post by Iain Cameron on 31/03/2024 at 16:19 »

Threadbare in places, a bit tatty, and should probably be binned.  But enough about me, here is  the t shirt in action this week

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Fly Tying / Re: Mucking about with deer hair

« Last post by Hamish Young on 29/03/2024 at 07:48 »

2 extremes - one with hare's ear and one with cactus chenille

You been in my fly boxes again James  Kidding - but great minds and all that.

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Social Corner / Re: Old Tee shirt

« Last post by Mike Barrio on 28/03/2024 at 18:50 »

Sorry for hijacking your topic Iain 

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Social Corner / Re: Old Tee shirt

« Last post by Andrew Boswell on 28/03/2024 at 15:22 »

I was just playing around with some of the creator software online tbh.

I think your design is really good, but often with colour schemes less is more. An olive t-shirt works on its own or as an underlayer, and generally doesn’t clash with other colours. The black script works well with that colour, better than white which I thought would work.

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Social Corner / Re: Old Tee shirt

« Last post by Mike Barrio on 28/03/2024 at 15:13 »

Nice previews Andrew 

Do you like that one? ...... Or did you have any other ideas?

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Social Corner / Re: Old Tee shirt

« Last post by Andrew Boswell on 28/03/2024 at 15:09 »

Not had any thoughts Andrew, I've always found it difficult to know what to put on them ...... What would you like to see?

I did this simple design a few years back, but never did anything with it.

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Fly Tying / Re: Mucking about with deer hair

« Last post by Mike Barrio on 28/03/2024 at 13:03 »

Nice n bright 

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Social Corner / Re: Old Tee shirt

« Last post by Mike Barrio on 28/03/2024 at 11:30 »

Any thoughts on doing a limited re-run of t-shirts Mike?!

Not had any thoughts Andrew, I've always found it difficult to know what to put on them ...... What would you like to see?

I did this simple design a few years back, but never did anything with it.