What are everyones go-to searching flies?

[DrVette 0]

Brodash, Seriously, I can not remember his name. He was the original inventor of the Pistol-pete.

Do you have more info to prove it out???

I swear he was one of my Grandfathers crew at CF&I in the late 70s. I can't be certain of anything around then. Chemo brain hits again.

[DrVette 0]

But i will swear to ANYTHING that the POS claiming he invented it out of Walsenburge/ Trinadad is the biggest lair thief and scoundrel you could ever meet.

[Dave G. 0]

I don't really have searching patterns, I just have standard go to imitations that I know work at various places, usually different for each. I guess if I had to pick one though, it would be my version of woolly bugger that I tie, even though I know something else can do better at certain times of year, day etc.

[Brodrash 0]

Vette, I mean there is a chance he could have lived in pueblo but he is originally from Idaho so Im betting its not the same guy

[DrVette 0]

Vette, I mean there is a chance he could have lived in pueblo but he is originally from Idaho so Im betting its not the same guy

Sorry. There is a guy around Trinidad who claims he invented the pistol pete...I just hate him. I know he didn't and wish my Grandfather's friend would get the recognition he bloody well deserves.

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Brodrash, on 30 Aug 2016 - 06:27 AM, said:

Vette, I mean there is a chance he could have lived in pueblo but he is originally from Idaho so Im betting its not the same guy

Sorry. There is a guy around Trinidad who claims he invented the pistol pete...I just hate him. I know he didn't and wish my Grandfather's friend would get the recognition he bloody well deserves.

 

 

 

Like the Loop Wing Emerger, there seems to be a lot of people that claim to have invented the Pistol Pete. One guy use to live here in Grand Junction, Colorado that claimed he did. That was many moons ago.

[mikechell 0]

Vette, Was your friend's name "Chris Furia"? Must have been, according to the official "Pistol Pete" site.

 

"The PISTOL PETE was born in 1972 from an idea of a young, twelve-year-old fly tier, named Chris Furia."

 

http://www.pistolpeteflies.com/about-us

[DrVette 0]

1972, i was 6 years old...And i was swinging them on a fly-bubble rig then. My Grandfather gave them to me and said that a friend made them for him. It might have been 73???

I think it might have been Brownie...he was always coming up with strange things. He even made a strange tube thing that had a weight and springs to dampen rifle/shot-gun recoil. But i just can't remember well enough to figure it out.

I guess it doesn't really matter...they are all dead now anyway. Why fight about it?

I do remember laughing very hard when i found out the props are/were beads you had to buy a necklace to get...That was around 78. Dealers started selling them for tying a few years later. But the dealers were about twice the size of the originals. It made it hard to get the right match.