The sister filled in the mystery –Dame Juliana Berners Part 1

The history of fly-fishing goes back to De Natura Animalium (On the Nature of Animals) by Claudius Aelianus written in the time of the Roman Empire. However, The Treatise of Fishing with an Angle of Berners was the true beginning. The Treatise of Fishing with an Angle continued affecting the fishing world for 200 years or more since its publication. It is also a mysterious book with an argument surrounding its contents that has not been concluded even now.

The sister filled in the mystery –Dame Juliana Berners Part 3

The identification and realization

The flies in Treatise	Hills	Skues	*The recipes in The Origins of Angling* by McDonald**	Schwiebert	My opinion	The difference from McDonald in my recipes
Dun Fly	February Red (Early Brown Stone)	March Brown	Body: Dun wool Wings: Partridge quill	March Brown	March Brown	Same as McDonald
Another Dun Fly	Olive Dun	Blue Dun or Olive Dun	Body: Black Wool Wings: Dual Wing. dark mallard quill veiled with the feather from under the Wing of jay	Hare’s Ear or Blue Dun	Olive Dun	Same as McDonald
The Stone Fly	Stonefly	Stonefly	Body: Black wool. Yellow under the hook shank, but only under the wing and tail Wings: mallard quill	Stonefly	Stonefly	Yellow dubbing under the wing and tail end
No name (Ruddy Fly)	Red Spinner (Adult Form of Blue Dun)	Great Red Spinner (The adult form of March Brown)	Body: Ruddy(reddish brown) wool ribbed with black silk Wings: Dual, mallard quill veiled with red capon hackle or Wings: Mallard quill Hackle: Red capon, tied palmer	Dun pattern He doesn’t specify the name.	Great Red Spinner	Capon hackle tied palmer
The Yellow Fly	Little Yellow May Dun	Yellow May or Yellow May Dun	Body: Yellow wool Wings: Dual, mallard quill dyed yellow veiled with red cock hackle or Wings: mallard quill dyed yellow Hackle: Red cock, tied palmer	Dun pattern He doesn’t specify the name.	Yellow May Dun, Sulphur	Red cock hackle, tied palmer
The Black Leaper	Marlow Buzz	Red Palmer	Body: Black wool ribbed with peacock herl Wings: Red capon quill feather Head: Blue silk (or wool) or Hackle: Palmer-tied dun	Grannom (Palmer pattern)	Marlow buzz	Wings: Furnace or Coch-y-bonddhu hackle
Dun Cut	Yellow Dun	Welshman’s Button（Caddis）	Body: Black wool with yellow stripe down side Wings: Mottled buzzard quill whipped with barked hemp	He doesn’t mention about this	Welshman’s Button	I use pheasant wing quill instead of buzzard. The head is dun thread
Maure Fly	Green Drake	Alder	Body: Dusky wool Wings: Brown mallard breast	He doesn’t mention this	Green Drake	Same as McDonald
Tandy Fly	Gray Drake	Oak Fly	Body: tawny wool Wings: Light gray mallard breast tied back to back	He doesn’t mention this	Green Drake Spinner	Same as McDonald
Wasp Fly	Wasp	Crane Fly	Body: Black wool ribbed with yellow thread Wings: mottled buzzard quill	Terrestrial (Wasp?)	Wasp	I use pheasant wing quill instead of buzzard
Shell Fly	Grannom	Sedge	Body: Green wool ribbed with peacock herl Wings: Mottled buzzard quill or Smaller, like a Grannom, down wing	Hatching BWO	Grannom	I use pheasant wing quill instead of buzzard.
Drake Fly	Alder	Failed to identify	Body: Black wool ribbed with black silk Wings: Brown mallard breast feathers Head: Black silk (or wool)	Drake pattern	Silver horns	Same as McDonald

No.1 Dun Fly (March)

The donne flye the body of the donne woll & the wyngis of the pertryche.

Note: HIlls says “the pertryche (partridge)” is the body feather and it was wrapped around the hook shank like the soft hackle flies. However the soft hackle flies didn’t exist at that time and appeared about 100 years later. So I don’t think it is suitable in here. It would be appropriate to think that it is the wing quill.

Moorish Brown of James Chetham and March Brown of Richard and Charles Bowlker are probably equivalent to this fly. Chetham used partridge wing quill and Bowlker used pheasant wing quill for the wings.

International Fly Tying Symposium is coming

I'm going to the International Fly Tying Symposium at Somerset, NJ on 19th and 20th. See you there.

The sister filled in the mystery –Dame Juliana Berners Part 2

Twelve flies in The Treatise of Fishing with an Angle

Although the flies of The Treatise of Fishing with an Angle are imitations, it is difficult to specify what are imitated. Hills, Skues, and Schwiebert pursued the identification, but their opinions are not uniform. Although the materials are written, they are too simple and it is difficult to specify them clearly. The only way is to guess based on the clues in the existing documents.

First of all, it is a good start to focus on the materials and the composing parts of the flies.

New project, The History of Fly Tying starts soon

My new project, The History of Fly Tying starts soon. I wrote a series of articles about fly fishing history in Japanese for “Fly Rodders”, a Japanese fly fishing magazine, from 2006 to 2008. This project is based on those articles. However, in addition to translating them to English, I will expand the contents and put more focus on the fly tying and the flies themselves. I will try to tie as many historically important flies as possible with the detailed descriptions. I’m not sure I will be able tie all of the flies in Favorite Flies and Their Histories by Mary Orvis Marbury and in some other huge lists of flies in some books. The great examples of the flies by Marbury, Ray Bergman and others are already available. So I don’t feel the necessity to tie every single fly which was introduced by them. The articles also will not include salmon flies. There are many great salmon fly tiers all over the world who know about them much more than me, so I conclude that I am not fit to write about this subject.

I will post the first article about the twelve flies in The Treatise of Fishing with as Angle part 1 soon. The following articles I think will be about Charles Cotton, Richard & Charles Bowler and Alfred Ronalds and so forth. However I won’t miss the other notable fly fishermen like Thomas Barker, Robert Venables and James Chetham. I hope I can continue to write articles up till the Catskill fly tiers and I also hope many fly fishermen will be interested in this subject.

There is nothing scarier than the fishing in the rain.

This is a story from about 30 years ago, so my memory is not clear anymore. However, I have to write it because it’s one of my most memorable fishing trips.

It’s about when I went flyfishing with my girlfriend who became and still is my wife. Our main mode of transportation was the motorcycle at that time. We went everywhere with them. It took about 10 hours to reach the river where we expected to have great fly fishing. It was mid August which, in Japan, is really hot and humid, but there fortunately was no rain.

Your stories are wanted

All of us have stories we don’t want to tell to anyone. It is too funny, too scary or too silly to tell. Did you see UFOs or aliens when you fish? It’s going to be a great story.

Now we want such kinds of stories. The title is “The story I don’t want to tell.” Should it be short or long? It doesn’t matter if it is a story when you went fishing. If you think you have such a story, please share it with us. If you put some photos or pictures, it’ll be better. Please email your story to me.

We are looking forward receiving a lot of great stories.

The introduction about my patterns

If you have had an opportunity to go to the International Fly Tying Symposium, Marlborough Show or another fishing show in New England, you might have visited my table and already know about my patterns. If you have seen or bought some big bait fish patterns with a foam head at your favorite shops, you might know at least my flies. However, most of you don’t know about me and my patterns. So I want to introduce my patterns to you a little bit.

Finally!

We can finally launch our fly fishing website. I’m still working on adding some articles and posts, but we think it’s time to at least start our business. This is the first web site we have. We started this plan with no knowledge about website making, so it took a long, long time to complete this job.

I know it is less than perfect. I think there are some problems we don’t know about. So please give us your opinions and let us know the problems so we can improve this website.

The reason why we wanted to have our own web site was to sell Masahito Sato’s original fly patterns, but we didn’t want to make it just for that sole purpose. We think it’s only a part of this web site. We will put more useful information on it later.

So keep in touch. More interesting things about fly fishing are soon to come.

Working Hard!

Hello everyone! I am currently working hard to start up my website. I hope I will be done with this job soon.

You can go to the store of the website, but it is still under construction so please don’t try to buy anything online.

I am sorry about this inconvenience.

If you want to buy my flies, please check my catalogue, fill the order form and send it to me by email. The email is on the order form. After I get the email, I’ll contact you as soon as possible.

The sister filled in the mystery –Dame Juliana Berners Part 1

The sister filled in the mystery –Dame Juliana Berners Part 3

International Fly Tying Symposium is coming

The sister filled in the mystery –Dame Juliana Berners Part 2

New project, The History of Fly Tying starts soon

There is nothing scarier than the fishing in the rain.

Your stories are wanted

The introduction about my patterns

Finally!

Working Hard!

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