Fishing Flies: Well-Dressed in Wales

February 8, 2006 By: Marshall Cutchin

The Welsh don’t tie flies, they dress them, and they’ve been doing so for a very long time. Moc Morgan provides an interesting perspective on Welsh patterns and their derivations on icWales.com. “The first ever book written in Wales on fly dressing was The Fly Fisher’s Legacy by George Scotcher which was published in Chepstow in 1811.”