Fishnkilts and Jean-Luc, welcome to the Flymph Forum. As Ray says, there is a lot of information here if you search. I live in New England, on the Massachusetts side of the New Hampshire border. My father was V.S. “Pete” Hidy, which is why I belong to the forum. I don’t fish or tie as much as other ...

Beautiful flymph!
So good to see you at Fly Fest.

Excellent!

Thanks for starting this very interesting thread, John. After the Audubon Society successfully lobbied congress to write laws prohibiting the sale of many bird feathers, Leisenring wrote to Pete Hidy (Jan 29, 1942): Have you noticed in our Book how few Bird feathers are needed? If you have not you h...

Excellent, as is always the case with flies from your vise. Nice photograph too.
Lance

Hi Ken, I, too, was curious last year when I discovered the posting with photographs about a Leonard rod owned by E. B. Leisenring. Unfortunately I couldn't find any link between the two fishermen other than their name. The Leisenrings came over during the Colonial era, so there were numerous branch...

Thanks for reminding us of Mark, Ron.

Hi Carl, As you probably remember, in The Sports Illustrated Book of Wet-Fly Fishing (1961), Pete Hidy wrote a chapter on stream strategy, pages 29-53. You might want to take a look again. He gives a number of presentation ideas that are surely a mixture of things he learned from Leisenring, and fro...

Here is Leisenring's version of the Tups Nymph. This is from the set of twelve favorite flies that Leisenring gave to Charley Rethoret, owner of Hotel Rapids on the Brodheads in Analomink, PA. The set of flies eventually was purchased by Bernie Pociask, now deceased, who let me photograph them. I do...

Good stuff, John.