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The opposite day, Matt despatched an e mail with some ideas on the historical past of bass bugs that we each thought can be fascinating to T.F.M. readers. Get pleasure from…
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Someday final summer time one in all my purchasers requested me if I’d do a presentation for his casting membership this coming winter. Usually I say no to displays. I simply don’t take pleasure in all of the analysis and time it takes to place one collectively, particularly if I can’t get multiple or two makes use of out of it. Let me educate a tying class, I’ll try this anytime over a presentation. This one nonetheless wasn’t straightforward to say no to. This consumer has turn out to be a superb buddy and a giant supporter of our information service and me on the whole as a information/tyer. So, having informed him I’d do it my thoughts started reeling with a subject that might inspire me to place within the work.
Now, if me in any respect, I’ve been a lover of bass bugs for over 30 years. Actually, creating and promoting balsa bass bugs is mostly how I squeak by the gradual months of winter when guiding is at a lull. What it’s possible you’ll not know is that I’m additionally a lover of historical past. Throw these two issues collectively and we have now one thing I can get motivated by. It was determined, I’d put collectively a presentation on the historical past of bass bugs.
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My analysis started rapidly and I grew to become fascinated with a few of my findings. One bug specifically was named time and again with obscure descriptions as I scoured the web. It was a bug named after James Henshall, who was one of many earliest pioneers of bass bugging and the writer of “The Ebook of Black Bass”. It was a fly referred to as the Henshall Lure and it was one of many first spun deer hair bugs, most likely created within the very early 1900’s. Whether or not it was created by Mr. Henshall or by one other tyer who gave it his identify nobody appears to know for certain, however attempt as I’d, I couldn’t discover a picture, illustration or something greater than a really obscure description on the internet.
Pissed off on the lack of know-how, I remembered an previous Weber Fly Fishing catalog I purchased from an vintage retailer greater than 20 years in the past. It needed to be in my ebook shelf someplace, however I hadn’t seen it since I purchased all of it these years in the past. If I may discover it, there’s a small probability the Henshall Lure might be talked about in there.
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With my new discovered info at hand I believed how cool it could
be to tie the Henshall Lure in all of the obtainable shade choices and put
collectively a shadow field imitating the web page from the catalog.
principal medium for bass bugs has at all times been painted balsa, or foam like my
normal Zudbubbler popper. I wanted a Tyer who likes to tie deer hair
bugs to assist me convey this to
life. I do know a ton of fantastic hair bug tyers and each may do
the job, however there was one explicit tyer that has given me bugs over
the years that basically had the texture of flies that had been “classic”. So I
despatched a fast textual content to my buddy Tim Thomas asking
if he’d have an interest. He mentioned he would do it, so I gave him a photograph
from the catalog and he started working. Inside a couple of quick weeks I had a
pile of Henshall Lures that had been tied simply as I hoped. They had been tied
very properly however had that old fashioned really feel I used to be wanting
for. A visit to Interest Foyer for a shadowbox and I put collectively a show
utilizing the bugs, it turned out so cool!
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As I’ve been engaged on the presentation, it’s given me another concepts
on related shows I may make. Constructing one thing bodily to go
together with a presentation has a lot to enjoyment to the method. It
has additionally added to my appreciation for the historical past of bass bugs, the
tyers who got here earlier than me and the various tyers I’ve the privilege of
figuring out immediately. Our sport is actually an awesome one which simply retains giving.
