The Royal Wulff Traditional Cache
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Number two in a series featuring fishing locations and flies.
The Royal Wulff will take you off the beaten path to the shores of Lamey Brook, one of the tributaries to the Ihnabitants River. Accesable from both the Trans Canada Highway and NS old route 4. Consult Google Maps and choose your approach. Park in the right spot and it's a short walk.
The Royal Wulff is a hair wing dry fly. Lee Wulff made these flies popular in the late 1920's but he did not actually create this fly. It was first tied by Q L Quackenbush of New York State. Wulff style flies feature a hair wing usually of calf tail hair with a heavy hackle collar designed to float high in rough water which makes them ideally suited to river use. This fly is composed of an Elk Hair tail, peacock herl body with red thread tied in the center, calf tail wing and a brown hackle (rooster feather) collar. Late last spring I had a couple of very successful outings on this very brook with the Royal Wullf and thus the placement of this cache.
Lamey Brook meets River Inhabitants about a kilometer and a half from here. The river and its tributaries carry water from a hughe drainage area off to the Atlantic Ocean. As a result, the system is home to sea run speckled trout, native brookies, some brown trout and a few Atlantic Salmon.
While your here, keep an eye out for Bald Eagles. There are dozens of them in the area. Coyotees and White Tailed Deer also make their homes here.
The cache contains two examples of the Royal Wulff dry fly. One intended as a prize for the first to find and the other to be left in the cache as its signature. Also in the original cache are the following:
2 Lucky Strike Spinners
2 Glow Stick toys
A Chicadee
A Peacock Feather - The stringy parts along the feather were used in this fly
2 Packs Crack Ups
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