Maxwell Blue:
The history of this pattern has been lost in time. Most fly tiers believe it to have been invented in Canada as a trout fly in the early 1900's.
Cosseboom:
This Atlantic salmon fly was invented in July 1935, by John C. Cosseboom of Woonsocket, Rhode Island. He tied the first cosseboom aboard the S.S. Fleuris, on a crossing from Quebec to Anticosti Island. The fly has achieved world wide popularity.
Murray:
Ian James developed this pattern with Murray Barrett, a fishing buddy, by combining the productive colours of black and purple. It was created in 1990 during a winter fishing excursion on the Bruce Peninsula in Ontario.
Penguin:
This sculpin-minnow pattern has been 'slowly evolving' at the vice of Ian James since 1983. The contrasting colours are appealing to a wide variety of game fish. It was created for use in the Georgian Bay area of Ontario. Willie 'the kid' McLennan, age 5, named the fly, "cause it looks like a penguin."
Rogers Fancy:
In the early 1970's, this pattern was developed by Shirley E. Woods of Ottawa for fishing Atlantic salmon. Green is one of the productive colours in the Gaspe watershed where he created the fly. Woods named the fly after his fishing friend, Maj. Gen. Roger Rowley.
Rusty Rat:
This is perhaps one of the most famous Atlantic salmon flies in existence. It was co-created in 1949 at Atholville, New Brunswick, by J. Clovis Arsenault and Joseph Pulitzer. Pulitzer had been using a Black Rat fly, and as it began to unravel, showing it's rusty coloured underbody of dental floss, the fly became more effective. Clovis incorporated the rust colour into the new pattern and the rest is history.
