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Ken Middlemist Commemorative Salmon Fly Dozen

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Ken Middlemist Commemorative Salmon Fly Dozen

This limited edition is a unique opportunity to own a set of classic salmon flies tied the traditional way for Hardy by Ken Middlemist. Others have taught themselves to dress flies in the hand, but Ken is one of a handful of people alive today who learned to tie flies that way and have never used any other method.

This limited edition set (only 50 are being produced) comes in an engraved aluminium case, with a printed guide to the flies in the set. Also included is a Limited Edition red covered copy of Salmon Fishing by J.J. Hardy. This is a beautiful new edition of J.J. Hardy's classic salmon book of 1907, recently reissued by Medlar Press . It includes an updated list (by Andrew Herd) of the 345 salmon flies originally catalogued by Hardy, as well as some superb colour plates of salmon flies tied in the hand by Ken Middlemist, the last Hardy salmon fly dresser.

Ken Middlemist Flies The fully dressed salmon fly enjoyed a meteoric career for just over a century from 1800 to the end of the First World War. After that, much simpler patterns began to take over, but many anglers were so attached to the glorious mixed wing flies of the nineteenth century that they continued to fish with them for another two generations.

The patterns in this limited edition box represent the favourites selected from the hundreds of flies dressed by Hardy's for their customers over the ages.

The selection has been made by Ken Middlemist, who was the last of the many apprentices that Hardy's taught to dress flies in the hand - making the dozen patterns in the box a unique opportunity to own a piece of fly fishing history.

If you're interested in purchasing one of these sets, please contact our Compleat Angler Country Store and Museum in Alnwick on +44 (0) 1665 602 771