STREAMCRAFT 



"I am that fellow." The following Summer 

 (1916), for the July Forest and Stream, Dr. 

 Breck wrote: "I don't think our wild Nova 

 Scotia trout take much to the dry fly, but I use 

 it mostly here, all the same, for, though the wet 

 fly gets five where the dry lures one, the use of 

 the dry fly is far more fascinating. The best 

 luck I have had with some flies made for me by 

 that finest of all anglers, the late Theodore 

 Gordon. These were tied by Gordon from in- 

 sects, well preserved, that I sent him from here, 

 and were beautifully wrought." 



While no one may fill Theodore Gordon's 

 unique place as a writer specially beloved of all 

 American anglers, the reader may be interested 

 to learn that flies tied in the exquisite Gordon 

 fashion are still obtainable from Gordon's 

 friend and neighbor, Mr. H. B. Christian of 

 Neversink, N. Y. Mr. Roy Steenrod of Liberty, 

 N. Y., likewise is familiar with the patterns, 

 and we understand that to these gentlemen was 

 bequeathed the bulk of Gordon's tying materials. 

 Mr. Christian, by the way, is my authority for 

 the statement that the fly made up commercially 

 by a well-known tackle-house under the name 

 of the "Gordon" was called a Golden Spinner 

 by Gordon himself. It never was so successful 

 on Neversink waters as the Blue Quill Gordon, 

 the fly to which Gordon did attach his name. 

 This has a quill body wound with gold wire, the 

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