Davy Wotton Super Midge

 

DAVY Wotton’s Super Midge’s have been an underground cult pattern on the White River for the last year

 Super Midges were whispered about, talked about and pontificated on but rarely seen. Well we are proud to have Davy Wotton’s Super Midge collection join our lineup of Mountain River Custom Flies, flies developed for the rivers by people who are on them day after day, week after week catching fish.

We also have a selection of Davy’s productive Sowbug and SowScud patterns to imitate the other two major food sources on the river. 

In this regard Davy is a great fit, as one of the hardest working, most innovative and deepest thinking guides on the river. That’s his reputation locally.

But Davy is truly a global fly fishing treasure. A fly fisher since the ‘60s Davy has done it all in the industry, fly tier, retailer, manufacturer but probably what most fly fishers outside Arkansas know Davy as the guru of dubbing.

 The Synthetic Living Fiber, or SLF dubbing, is one of Davy’s, so is Prism Dubbing and most of the range produced by Wapsi. Wapsi bought Davy’s dubbing business before he moved to Arkansas, at the instigation of another fly fishing treasure and good friend of the Shop Dave Whitlock. The flies are tied by Davy’s protégé, the irrepressible Teresa Van Winkle, who has learnt to fish and tie under the master himself, and his exacting eye. You have probably seen “T-Bird” at events like Conclave or Sowbug, tying superbly with incredibly long fingernails, part of her previous business. The Journal had to ask T-Bird yesterday and yep the nails are a shadow of their former selves as she devotes her time to reproducing Davy’s fly patterns.   We asked Davy for the most productive of the Super Midges, which are tied with Prism Dubbing hence their other name the Prism Midge. He turned up with 9 different midges, each in two sizes, 14 and 16. Each is distinctly Davy from the WhiteTails to the Marabou Bloodworm, to the Red and Gold. Even more traditional color schemes like Black and Silver, Black and Pearl have a Wotton twist

Dubbing blends in his SowScud and Sowbug patterns are so secret not even T-Bird knows what is in it. The SowScud has a very clever, two-tone segmentation; the Sowbugs have a very nice shellback and match the appearance of the local natural very well. These come in size 16 and 18 and are weighted.

As the Journal is going to bed the Faye our web guru is loading these into the Web Store. The link should be done by the time you receive this email. Otherwise keep checking back to the Davy Wotton Flies page.