Dressed For Success (another glympse inside Doug's Fly Box)

[DUBBN]

love the box and the flies as always. But, I'm curious about the way you put the flies into the slots... I put mine in just the opposite direction...Am I doing it backwards, or do you prefer your way for a specific reason...

You are doing it right!

[Mike62]

Hi again Guys!

Mike62 - Thanks Mike! Do you suppose some brookies or browns or 'bows in your neck of the Maine woods would appreciate them?

Doug in the Den

Well, I know the brookies would certainly appreciate them. As for those other two species you mentioned, the bows and the browns, they don't exist this far north. We have brookies, and we have salmon; that's it! Sure, we have togue up the wazoo, but they're a horse of a different color.

[Theroe]

Doug, such nice work – kudos to you my friend!

Also: Lou’s comment made me think of a conversation we had a year or so back where I was supposed to send you some hooks, but I never did
I will get them in the mail to you immediately!

Dana

[DOUGSDEN]

Beautiful Dana! I thought you forgot about me in the hub-bub of life! I will be anxiously awaiting them! Yahoo!
Thank you friend!
Dougsden

[DOUGSDEN]

Mike,
I am glad to know that you have God's fish, the brookie so close at hand! I wonder if they would believe my offerings? I will send you some to try out and please report back to me! Maybe a picture to see how beautiful they are (the brooks that is)!
Tying even as we speak,
Doug

[Mike62]

Doug, it would be an honor to take your ties to the waters of northern Maine. I had the great privilege of being a guinea pig for some of Alan Petrucci's ties (BrkTrt). He would tie something weird and send it up, asking me to give it a try on pure brookie water. Swinging your flies through the same water that I swung Alan's will be a treat. Send em' up, baby!

[DOUGSDEN]

Mike,
They are on their way to your den! Lemme know when they get there!
Alan was a dandy! I had on occasion swapped patterns (not often enough though) and materials with him! Incredibly generous man! He held nothing back! He is still very much missed! Does anyone go back to his web-site and look around and reminisce? I do and it's still a very pleasant thing!
Doug in the Den

[Variant]

Mike,
They are on their way to your den! Lemme know when they get there!
Alan was a dandy! I had on occasion swapped patterns (not often enough though) and materials with him! Incredibly generous man! He held nothing back! He is still very much missed! Does anyone go back to his web-site and look around and reminisce? I do and it's still a very pleasant thing!
Doug in the Den

Doug,
I go back to Alan’s web site all the time !
I first met Alan in the late 70s on a little blue line in Connecticut fishing for wild Brook trout and we became very good friends. His passion for the outdoors was second to none.
As you said ,Alan was an incredibly thoughtful and generous man, helping everyone he could. Years ago I sent Alan a California quail skin and to my amazement a few weeks later I received a parcel and inside were a half dozen beautifully tied spider flies. The note read “ The Duncan Spider “ thanks Alan.

Lou

[Mike62]

That same spirit of generosity always came through in his emails and the notes he would send up. I never got to meet him in person; the closest thing was a phone call we shared a few years ago. I still wander back through his site all the time!

[DOUGSDEN]

Beautiful replies Men! The structure of his site and the cordial, easy manor in which he corresponded with everyone is as if he's still right here with us! I never had the pleasure of meeting him or talking with him only thru e-mails and responses to his posts! I wish that I would have! Oh, to be in beautiful Connecticut fishing for those "living gems" in the very places he knew so well! Lou, you were one lucky duck to have met and fished with him!
Has anyone had the same distinct pleasure?
Doug in the Den