This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Ray Bergman’s Saltoun wet fly.
The Saltoun is a Ray Bergman dry fly listed in his book entitled Trout (1940 – fourth printing) on page 222, Plate No. 8.
Bergman was well known for his wet flies, but his book also lists dry flies, streamers, nymphs, steel head and land locked salmon flies.
If you are a regular at RiverKeeper Flies, you recall Bergman’s book includes colored plates to illustrate the dry and wet flies with a description of each fly in the back. It was the first book to provide color fly illustrations.
For other Ray Bergman flies, here is a link to the Ray Bergman Category.
Saltoun
Tip:
Gold Tinsel
Tail:
Ginger hackle
Body:
Black floss
Ribbing:
Gold Tinsel
Hackle:
Ginger
Wing:
Slate
Enjoy…go fish!
Dry fly! How on earth would you get that to float,
Pack the wings with muclin?
It looks like a good candidate for a Guild meeting. Thanks.