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Fly of the Week  | Black Quill April 17th, 2015 - Week 3 of 35

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Black Quill Recipe

Paralepto-phlebia adoptiva Hook: #12 to 16 dry Thread: black Tail: black hackle fibers Body: stripped black quill Wings: dark gray mallard wing quill segments Hackle: black Tyer: John Bonasera

Notes: While it’s a tough fly to see on the water, the black quill is a highly versatile fly that shares the size and color of early season stoneflies we highlighted in week one. The video below uses different color tail & hackle, but it’s the same tie.  Also try blue quills to imitate this fly.

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Fly of the Week  | Elk Hair Caddis April 10th, 2015 - Week 2 of 35

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Elk Hair Caddis Recipe

Brachycentrus, American Grannom Hook: #10-18 Mustad 94840 Thread: brown Body: dubbing to match the natural Rib: palmered brown or black hackle, overlaid with thin copper wire Downwing: tan, brown or black elk hair, to match the natural Head: trimmed butts of elk hair wing Originator: Al Troth, Montana

Notes: It’s a tad early to witness actual hatches, but in the early days of the season you still might draw a trout up with the classic Elk Hair Caddis.  Lean on darker colors.

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The 2015 Fly of the Week initiative seeks to raise money for Trout Unlimited, to continue it’s conservation efforts in the Catskills, and the Jerry Bartlett Memorial Angling Collection, to restore it’s historic fly fishing collection that was destroyed in a 2011 fire.

Trout Unlimited

TU’s mission is to conserve, protect, restore, and sustain North America’s trout and salmon fisheries and their watersheds. "Take care of the fish and the fishing will take care of itself." This simple idea launched TU in 1959 and it inspires us still.

The Ashokan-Pepacton Chapter of Trout Unlimited helps protect the Catskill waters where the sport of American Fly Fishing was born. Those same waters are delivered to New York City via the world’s largest totally natural & unprocessed water supply system.  

We need your help.  Please donate at least $10 today to help us keep our waters clear, and our fabled history something to be experienced as well as remembered.

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The Jerry Bartlett Memorial Angling Collection @ The Phoenicia Library

Occupying a cozy reading room on the second floor of the Phoenicia Library, The Jerry Bartlett Memorial Angling Collection opened on April 1, 1996. Built by local volunteers in the style of a rustic cabin, the Parlor was filled with fishing lore, tackle, flies, historic artifacts, photos, memorabilia, and a core collection of books, which grew to become the largest circulating collection of books on fishing in the Northeast.

In March 2011, a devastating fire destroyed the Phoenicia Library and the “Angler’s Parlor” along with it. Nearly four years later, in January 2015, the rebuilt library has re-opened at 48 Main Street in Phoenicia, New York. Although all the books and rods were lost, the collection has received generous donations and is in the process of re-building it’s collection.  Still, we need your help.  Book and artifact donations as well as funds to replace priceless items lost in the fire are still desperately need to help re-build what was once a one-of-a-kind collection. 

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2015 Fly of the Week