Scott Murdock Blog by Joe Jackson
The finished product. A fly well-worth driving 700 miles for.Because It Looks Cool: Tying Artist Scott Murdock I recently drove a little over 700 miles in the span of a day for the sake of one fly—and it’s one that I would never dream of tying to a leader. It’s a fly that you have to see to appreciate, and I don’t even mean in a photograph. You have to watch it come together, listen to its creator recite a concise history of Atlantic salmon flies as he works, and feel the palpable buzz of a masterpiece in the making. You must ask questions, and you must look closely at the paired married wings because they are not, as it...