Welcome Chelsea123 to The Fly Tying Bug!

Strange you should mention Sasquatches Chris. There was alot of panic and speculation in the Grand Coulee area back in the early eighties about Monsieur Sasquatch. Do you like the indians of the same name believe in the real "Big Brother"? Personally believe there are many things in this world that people may not believe in, but it happens! I,ve been around long enough to keep an open mind, but I have heard, seen and experienced some very weird things in my life all over this world!

Well Byron m8 we be of the same cut I thinks I have experienced some weird and wonderous things being around here my entire life mostly in the bush areas.I remember one frosty morning still dark hiking thru the bush to the edge of the River were a log crossed over to the other side still being a little darkish when I crossed over and half an inch of frost on log with no other prints in frost what a man will do to catch a Steelhead wow any ways what I saw on the other side my mind still denies to this day but being a hunter and having spent all my spare time in the out doors from one end of this province to the other and having confronted all species of wild life up till this time I became a believer in unidentified things m8

Having just left the Air Force 21 June 1971 wife Sue and I along with my late mother and father set off to fish the Old Dominion River near Colville, eastern Washington. The water was rathyer high and running fast with loads of snow melt coming down from Mt Dominion, but the fat rainbows, cutthroats and brownies were rising freely to our big bushy muddlers. There was a large boulder lying in the river about five or six feet from the bank that lloked very inviting and I felt that an angler on that could cover a lot of trouty looking water, but somehtingin the back of my mind suddenly made an icy chill run down my spine. I had been about to jump onto that rock, but decided not to and carried on further down the river. A month later my mother sent a clipping from the Colville Press-Examiner which read:" Local angler nearly drowns in Old Dominion River! It seems an angler had done exactly what I was bout to do that day and Did make it onto the rock, the rock immediately shifted with the angler,s weight and dumped him into the freezing river. Fortunately his friend with him was a strong swimmer and amanged to pull him out! I was 1. On my own and 2. With the way the water was running when I fished it I doubt I,d have manged to swim to safety.! I rest my case-and that,s just One example!

What I meant by saying I was alone was I was around the bend from the others and any calls for help would have been drowned out by the rushing waters.

Yes Byron we be lucky some times I have kissed the bottom of the Chilliwack river three times and am still here to talk about it and once on the Skagit river infront of a log jamb real lucky that day

ha, ha, good one Chelsea.. welcome anyways...

Neil. if the name Bill didn,t do it for you who takes me fishing? For some reason he wants to be "incognito"!

Nah. I just thought that my handle on fff - Bill1 - was a bit naff. Needed spicing up. My favourite dry fly for prospecting NC waters used to be a hackled Greenwells Glory. So I thought that a name in honour of the famous Canon Greenwell would be in order.
Mind you, from the photos of him he looks a right miserable pillock. (No comebacks, please. I have Mrs CanonG for that.)

Suppose lots of clergymen made good fly fishermen/tiers-after all you couldn,t get a boss much higher in places!

Arr ok cheers Byron,i did wonder until Bill said its the "Mablethorpe Marvel" then it clicked

Neil