You can borrow one of these Dave.Sharps Scottie and a Young’s 10B?!
Somewhere in the mid 1980's I was invited to join the Washington Steelhead Flyfishers. Every year someone put together a fly plate of flies tied by the members. The plate was then won by a lucky member in a simple drawing from a hat. Myself and another guy volunteered to make the plate for two consecutive years. Typically each member contributed one fly but a few contributed two which was helpful as it gave us a little more leeway to arrange a more visually balanced display. Harry was one who contributed two. We would return the unused fly to it's owner. When I tried to give Harry his unused fly back he just said "Keep it" so I did and I've cherished it ever since.
Good to see your post, it’s a good one.
I know that guy! A bit of an odd sort, to say the least. Maybe eccentric is the word. A lot of stories could be told about him. He is a good fisherman though. I walked into Dellinger's one time (when it was a productive run) and found him fishing the tailout. He hooked 3 steelhead, pretty much cleaning out the run that day. He was fishing a 2-handed rod. I mention that because a few years later, Harry and he went retro and went back to fishing single hand rods, with Harry mainly fishing his Peter McVey cane rod. S____ told me that it wasn't right to fish for steelhead with 2-handed rods, after he had been doing so for a fair number of years. Yeah, I think eccentric covers it.
