Description
DVD 211151
Running Time: 95 mins
Jimmy Younger is one of the last true professional fly dressers, with 40 years experience behind him. His career started with Redpath of Kelso in 1955, then with WM Robertson of Glasgow and Sutherland Fly in Helmsdale. He then spent seven years in Hong Kong as tutor/ manager of a large fly dressing company.
Returning to Scotland, he and his wife Gloria set up their own business in Durness, Sutherland, before moving to Torthorwald, Dumfries in 1979.
Jimmy has over the years written many articles on fly-dressing for various magazines, both home and abroad, and his work has been featured in many books on fishing and fly-dressing.
In this programme Jimmy, with Obsourne McMinn, dresses 10 examples that can be uised to produce a series of over 200 patterns, from classic patterns using traditional masterials to the most modern. Showing the techniques used by the professional fly-dresser to produce the very highest qulaity flies.
