Please read Understanding catalogue records for help interpreting this information and Using footage for more information about accessing this film.

Title: SPRING WET TROUT FLIES

Reference number: 8902

Date: 1984

Production company: Video Action Ltd

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 54.40 mins

Description: Jimmy Younger dresses wet flies for spring trout fishing, demonstrating techniques and materials required to make the March Brown, Wickam's Fancy, Invicta, Partridge & Orange, Rough Olive Dun and Brown Sedge flies.

See also ref. 8901.

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

See Sheena Irving's website at http://www.sirvingav.com/ [last accessed 09/09/2019] SheenaIrving AV is a Member of the Association for Heritage Interpretation.

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

Shotlist: [Shotlisted from .mp4 file using VLC Media Player]

colour bars, black (.16) ocs (.37) Title (.42) c/u box of flies; close shots Jimmy Younger ties a Greenwell Glory (8.54) gv's JY ties the original pattern for the March Brown fly, remarking that it resembles a nymph in water; c/u March Brown (16.16) close shots JY dressing Wickham's Fancy (22.29) ms JY speaks about how he positions his vice; he ties an original Invicta; c/u Invicta fly (31.10) gv's JY ties a Partridge & Orange; c/u same (35.03) gv's JY makes a Rough Olive Dun, comparing it one of an older style; c/u same (43.46) gv's ties a Brown Sedge explaining components' resemblance to the insect; c/u same; JY varnishes the head (53.29) ms JY and Douglas Clark close (54.09) ecs (54.40)