According Gapen tells Dan, son of the inventor, his father was fishing in the Nipigon River near Vi

Until relatively recently, it was as true that Dan Gapen of Big Lake Minnesota was the creator of the famous fly. In a way it is, the modern version. Apparently Dan Gapen first tied this fly in August 1937, but not released until mid-1940, when Dan Bailey and Hank Roberts began tying commercially.
According Gapen tells Dan, son of the inventor, his father was fishing in the Nipigon River near Virgin Falls, Canada, in search of Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis). In 1920 there, Doc Cook had obtained plastic cups a fish of 14 1/2 pounds, a world record at that time for this species. plastic cups The natives of the tribe of the Ojibwa, argued that the river had larger trout. As Dan could not get anything that weighed more than 4 pounds, your guides (Bushard Dan and John Sheboyer) plastic cups convinced him to embody the "Sculpin Minnow (Minnow is a small freshwater plastic cups fish used as bait; Sculpin, plastic cups teleost fish with eyes on the top of the head and protruding bones all over her body, lives in shallow waters plastic cups in the area, calling it "Cockatush". emphasize plastic cups this because I think it's the key to the discussion. Reality is that Dan Gapen gained rapid success with this bait, which motivated him to try to imitate.
Using your laptop to tie flies, after analyzing thoroughly Cockatush Kit, noted that had large ridges, dilated flaps wide and covers plastic cups gills, Higher Secondary fins and caudal fin very rounded. The color not normally varies plastic cups from one specimen plastic cups to another, dominated plastic cups by a mottled brown, black and gray. Their size varies from 10 cm. very possibly to 15 cm.
To imitate him, tied on a hook N 0 4, selecting the most drab materials at hand. The mottled feathers of a wild turkey served to the tail with flat gold tinsel paw wrapped hook - this was the only bright material used - for the lower wing (underwing) tail hair of a gray squirrel with an overlay of wing feathers wild turkey. So far the imitation was good but had to do the head. He tried different ways with ruff (Hackle) brown cock, but when wet it flattens. Finally decided to tie with deer hair and tight to the hook wound with twine, scissors did the rest.
Tested the new creation and once managed to sink the fly pulled several trout between 2 and 8 pounds. After this, he made many more, trying to copy the 'Cockatush. "His first creation was firm as the best.
Much was discussed between Bushard, Gapen Sheboyer and the name of the new fly, they insisted on calling Cockatush; Gapen because plastic cups he did not want to fly with a combined "spinner" (small metal propeller plastic cups placed just behind the hook eye, then her fly is attached) that name. Then Gapen used the name of another Sculpin from the cold waters of Wisconsin natural hence called 'Muddler ".
A Bavarian Ludwig Moedíer name, lived back in 1860 in the town of Oberschater, where I worked as a caregiver Spielenwasser river, owned by Adolf Gritzbach. Its function was to maintain that excellent trout stream in southern Germany, and accompany their owners and friends to fish. From Moedíer fished with bait and using as such small fish caught in the river itself. His fly patterns fished, so Ludwig plastic cups learned the rare art of tying flies. Was this wildlife rangers so neat and meticulous, plastic cups their experiences and what was happening in the river, the capsized in a newspaper report that enabled the current generation, about the life and miracles of this curious specimen of Teutonic ranger.
No less curious how these writings were discovered plastic cups in the demolition of a house in Perrier, in the valley of Ande-bundle in France. How they got there is not known, but Mr. Coln-Pickering's got Mr. Phillipe Graund. In these pages a number of very interesting facts emerge. For they know that their son Klaus was also a fisherman, but fly. Klaus decided to emigrate to America, plastic cups where he followed his father in June 1882. From 1882-1889 Ludwig plastic cups sees in America where trout fishing daily. plastic cups Free and open waters of America seem strange to a wildlife ranger old continent where rivers belonged to the Lords and was prohibited to fish. For his' newspaper "place where I can set the Moedler. A small rural community in the east of Manhattan, called Yorkville, established by Germans. Ran through the community (two streams, only one of them identified by name, which was apparently Ludwig's favorite, Arch Brook. knew the Brook Trout Here, a new species of trout, so different from his countrymen, the brown Spielenwassen. followed using bait, but his advanced age, chronic rheumatism in his legs