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[quote windriver]If you tie flies at all the Stayner Ducktail is one of the easiest ones to tie. I believe it is an old Marve Taylor pattern if you want to google it.

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I found more info on Google:

[i]Stayner Ducktail

This streamer pattern was developed in the 1920's by Ruel Stayner in Idaho and was originally designed to take perch in the many excellent stillwater fisheries around his home area. Ruel owned and operated a sporting goods store down the street from our own Dick Bonamarte's motel in Twin Falls, Idaho. According to Dick, the Stayner Ducktail not only caught perch but "ripped their lips" on the large trout of Magic Reservoir and Henry's Lake. Between the 1950's and the 1980's, Stillwater enthusiasts like Ruel from Idaho developed a number of effective fly patterns for arid-country reservoirs on which they popularized the use of float tubes. Guys like Ruel, Dick, and Marv Taylor were just a few of many anglers that made up the early Idaho Float Tube Navy, as Dick calls it. We can thank these "pioneers of the pond" for many of the stillwater float tube patterns and techniques we enjoy today.

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I am 53 years old and remember the early float tube days. My dad was one of the early "Idaho Float Tube Navy" and had me & my brother out in float tubes in the mid 1960's. My first float tube was and old "Tucker Tube". A real small canvas covered tube. While I have a pontoon boat I still really prefer fishing from the old round float tubes. They are just so comfortable & really nostalgic for me. I'll be using an old "Bagmaker" round tube this weekend!
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