We start the New Year with a new name, "THE SALMON FLIER". Hopefully we will continue to fly!

In the last issue I mentioned sending a person to the FFF Conclave in Eugene, Oregon in 1990. I forgot to say that the $500 we raised was to memorialize Jean Price and Frank Chubski. Hopefully each year we will be able to do the same. If you have a name you wish to submit, please get it in right away. Fly tyers are being contacted now!

Currently we have 44 subscribers to our letter. But we are not receiving articles. If articles are not forthcoming, substitute a question and we'll see that it is answered in the following issue. You don't have to be a great tyer.

Here's a question someone should be able to answer. In the last few weeks I've read a couple of articles, one by Alex Simpson in Scotland and another from the Derrydale Press Book "Atlantic Salmon Fishing" on tying salmon flies. In both instances they put their wings on separately, first the far wing and then the near one. Does anyone else do it that way?