"Salars Nemesis"

Sylvester Nemes the soft hackled fly addict, who is responsible for many of us taking up fishing and fly tying the soft hackled fly. While the patterns in is books feature the flies of the English fly tyers of that early era when these flies dominated. Well while doing some research, by the way it's still on going, I reached out to two gentleman who I consider to be very knowledgeable when it comes to Sylvester Nemes and soft-hackled flies. It was Bill Shuck who sent me a photo of a fly that was originated by Nemes...Bill had tied the fly from a description given him. This fly is possibly the only fly that was created by Nemes.

Further information on the fly was given to me by Doug Duvall who has some first hand knowledge of Nemes and has been very helpful to me. It's known that Nemes visited Scotland in late 1996 and early 1997. Here he fished and wrote about it, later publishing it in his book Six Months In Scotland.

The fly that Sylvester Nemes created is..."Salars Nemesis"

"Salars Nemesis"....Created By Sylvester Nemes....Tied By Alan Petrucci

I tried my best to recreate Nemes fly to the best of my ability. My access to salmon fly hooks is one type and that's what I used.

The recipe is...Hook, a salmon fly Daiichi 2441 #8...Tail, Golden pheasant tippets...Body, Orange Silk...Rib, Flat silver tinsel...Thorax, Orange Dubbing...Hackle, Yellow Hen Saddle...Thread, Orange.

Here is the fly tied on a Tiemco TMC204R #8 hook.