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Hamish Young

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #450 on: 19/03/2011 at 09:48 »
*** rubs eyes***

OK, so it's a feather we're looking for.
The eponymous Ghillie is the bit that's a wee bit grey to me.... I'm thinking the Ghillies surname is eponymous with either a fly or the feather in question - that suggests to me the material link between the editor of an angling magazine and what we're looking for must be the same as the Ghillie to be eponymous :?
My fevered brain suggests the thing to do is to suggest the Ghillie and the rest will follow.

Hamish exits stage right and goes to drink more coffee and look for thinking cap :z4

:z3

Hamish Young

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #451 on: 19/03/2011 at 10:01 »
OK, have had some more coffee.

I think the Ghillie (and eponymous fly) is Jock Scott, what the specific feather is still bugging me and so is the editor of a fishing magazine who had the largest bag of salmon from a loch.

Regardless, I think the Jock Scott is the probable link so I'll plump for the material to be mallard or jungle cock.

:z3

Peter McCallum

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #452 on: 19/03/2011 at 10:39 »
OK, have had some more coffee.

I think the Ghillie (and eponymous fly) is Jock Scott, what the specific feather is still bugging me and so is the editor of a fishing magazine who had the largest bag of salmon from a loch.

Regardless, I think the Jock Scott is the probable link so I'll plump for the material to be mallard or jungle cock.

:z3

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo he's hit the crossbar!!!! :shock :shock so close. 

One more go before I give the answer big chap??

Think wing and Ian Wood

Hamish Young

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #453 on: 19/03/2011 at 10:48 »
Wood Duck  :?

Peter McCallum

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #454 on: 19/03/2011 at 23:30 »
An interesyting idea and I can see the relationship. I was thining of white tipped turkey - the wing of the 'Ian Wood' fly which held the record catch of salmon on loch lomomd and the underwing of the Jock Scott.

your answer is close enough. Over to you Hamish

Hamish Young

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #455 on: 20/03/2011 at 09:07 »
Cool  :cool:

Right then (rubs chin, scratches head).... errrrrr.....

Who am I :?

OK. I wrote one book on the life of salmon, based on my own experiences which was a best seller in its time.
I started my business at 18 years old and although there is no longer a family link the fishing tackle business I established it is still on the go to this day. In its time my fishing tackle shop was something of a Mecca for salmon and trout anglers in my particular part of Scotland and for a time we built our own rods and reels.

So..... who am I :?

H :z3

bordertroot

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #456 on: 20/03/2011 at 10:11 »
A wee guess at P.D.Malloch  :?

Bob

Hamish Young

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #457 on: 20/03/2011 at 11:06 »
Yup  :z16

Over to you Bob :wink

:z3

Allan Liddle

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #458 on: 20/03/2011 at 17:00 »
A wee bit of a joker whilst waiting for Bob and one left unanswered on the 'Where's This?' thread (posted thanks to Jim's senior moment  :z4 :z4


OK I'll go for something a bit different, Fly Fishing and its and its occasional paranormal manifestations.

Hugh Falkus wrote "Often I know beforehand I am going to catch a fish " that he attributed to Extra sensory perception.

Ian wood in 1957 called it the anglers extra sense.

Who am I quoting on the same subject ?

"It is as if there were some magnetic influence in the angler's confidence, which disposes the Salmon to take the fly

Mike Barrio

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #459 on: 31/03/2011 at 13:34 »
Hmmm ....... no response, do we get a clue or two Allan? :wink

Cheers
Mike

Jim Eddie

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #460 on: 31/03/2011 at 17:46 »
He wrote what some consider the best fishing book ever written, Britsh Arisotocrat and Foreign Secratary 

 :z18

Jim

Peter McCallum

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #461 on: 31/03/2011 at 18:10 »
viscount gray of falloden

Jim Eddie

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #462 on: 31/03/2011 at 18:53 »
Close Peter  :wink

Its Viscount Grey of Falloden

 :z18

Jim

Peter McCallum

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #463 on: 31/03/2011 at 20:27 »
What is the next line of this poem

Let the Purist rejoice in the fly that he dries,
And look down on my practice with hauteur,
But for me the surprise
Of the flash of the rise........

Fadpasser

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #464 on: 31/03/2011 at 21:24 »
What is the next line of this poem

Let the Purist rejoice in the fly that he dries,
And look down on my practice with hauteur,
But for me the surprise
Of the flash of the rise........
Is it "with a hole in my liberty bodice" ?

 




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