Rocky River Chapter Trout Unlimited
Charlotte, North Carolina
We Conserve, Protect and Sustain our
Coldwater Natural Resources
Notice :
RRTU Chapter Meeting, September 19
First, please plan to attend, this is our annual business meeting and board and officer elections. We will review the year and speak to next year as well.
Second, the meeting room has been changed from the second floor to the ground floor, same building. Room 107. Construction is still underway upstairs. Alarka Update 09.14.19 :
Sign up for Fall 2019 Alarka today !!
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Royal Trude
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Lime Trude
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Fly of the Month 09.19
The Trude Group
By simply substituting hair for feathers, the Trude is one of the earlier hair wing flies and the first to be tied in the down-wing style. The trude was created in fun by Carter H. Harrison in 1903 while a guest on the A. S. Trude Ranch, Idaho.
Red fibers taken from a rug for a body, a clump of hair from a red spaniel dog for the down-wing and a squirrel tail used for hackle were all tied together on an over-sized muskie hook and then presented to Mr. Trude, owner of the Ranch. The fly looked so appealing that a few more serious samples were made up. A red yarn body wrapped with silver tinsel, a squirrel tail hair tied long enough for the dark band to show as the down-wing and a red rooster hackle on a dry fly hook became the original recipe for the Trude. The fly was tested – catching all the fish the party could carry away from the Snake River, near the Ranch. Thus, the fly was named the Trude.
Tom Adams and Alen Baker
The Trude Group
By simply substituting hair for feathers, the Trude is one of the earlier hair wing flies and the first to be tied in the down-wing style. The trude was created in fun by Carter H. Harrison in 1903 while a guest on the A. S. Trude Ranch, Idaho.
Red fibers taken from a rug for a body, a clump of hair from a red spaniel dog for the down-wing and a squirrel tail used for hackle were all tied together on an over-sized muskie hook and then presented to Mr. Trude, owner of the Ranch. The fly looked so appealing that a few more serious samples were made up. A red yarn body wrapped with silver tinsel, a squirrel tail hair tied long enough for the dark band to show as the down-wing and a red rooster hackle on a dry fly hook became the original recipe for the Trude. The fly was tested – catching all the fish the party could carry away from the Snake River, near the Ranch. Thus, the fly was named the Trude.
Tom Adams and Alen Baker
