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Title: SPRING SALMON FLIES

Reference number: 8901

Date: 1984

Production company: Video Action Ltd

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 59.48 mins

Description: Jimmy Younger discusses the construction of flies for spring salmon fishing, demonstrating techniques and mixture of synthetic and natural materials required to make Garry, Blue Charm, Tosh and Black Shrimp flies.

See also ref. 8902.

Title preserved as part of an AHRC funded video preservation project in partnership with Glasgow University, entitled 'Children and Amateur Media in Scotland'.

Credits: presented by Douglas Clark & Jimmy Younger
recorded & ed. Douglas Bolton & Mike Buchan

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colour bars (.22) ocs (.30) Title (.47) gv's Jimmy Younger talks through the construction of a Garry tube fly with Douglas Clark; c/u Garry fly (15.31) close shots JY tying a Blue Charm onto a Waddington shank; cutting hairs from dyed bucktail and moose skins; c/u Blue Charm fly (34.32) gv's JY ties a Tosh directly onto a Drury treble hook with dyed black squirrel and gold feathers from a cock pheasant skin; c/u Tosh fly (45.11) gv's tying a Black Shrimp onto a double hook; speaks about its Northern origins, the qualities of the feathers and materials used; c/u Black Shrimp fly (58.42) ms men close (59.18) ecs (59.48) [music continues to 59.54]