{"id":639,"date":"2009-11-27T14:19:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T13:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bxttlines.wordpress.com\/?p=639"},"modified":"2009-11-27T14:19:14","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T13:19:14","slug":"garry-dog-at-last-the-fly-tier-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/11\/27\/garry-dog-at-last-the-fly-tier-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Garry Dog – at last, the fly-tier revealed!"},"content":{"rendered":"

IT DIDNT take too long since my last article, to track down the elusive fly-tyer credited with creating one of Scotland\u2019s most famous salmon patterns, the Garry Dog.<\/p>\n

Also known as the Minister\u2019s Dog, Yellow Dog or simply Garry, a chance meeting with the grandson of a Borders\u2019 minister, brought me the background<\/a> to the creation of this celebrated fly. And even a picture of Garry, the dog, whose hair was snipped off for the very first version.<\/p>\n

\"Garry<\/a>
Garry Dog - as tied in the 1950s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But the identity of the creator still remained a mystery. Until today, when we can reveal that the Garry Dog was first tied in the Tweedside town of Kelso by local tackle dealer, John Wright, during the 1920s.<\/p>\n

Colin Martin, grandson of the Rev Denholm Fraser, the Sprouston minister from 1903 to the late 1930s, who still has a picture of Garry, the dog, couldn\u2019t remember the name of the fly dresser, but canvassed members of his family to gather the information.<\/p>\n

According to Colin, Wright\u2019s father James, another fly-tyer of note, was credited with creating the Durham Ranger, although some sources claim this was the work of Walton Scruton, a Durham man, but member of the Sprouston angling club in 1845. It is also attributed to another club member, William Henderson.<\/p>\n

Now we know.<\/p>\n

Addendum:<\/strong> John Gray of Gray’s of Kilsyth<\/a> points out that James Wright was the creator of one of the most popular flies of all time – Greenwell’s Glory<\/a>, first dressed in 1854 for Canon William Greenwell, of Durham.\u00a0 Thanks, John.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IT DIDNT take too long since my last article, to track down the elusive fly-tyer credited with creating one of Scotland\u2019s most famous salmon patterns, the Garry Dog. Also known as the Minister\u2019s Dog, Yellow Dog or simply Garry, a chance meeting with the grandson of a Borders\u2019 minister, brought me the background to the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}