Heritage Flies - Part 8 The Dogs Breakfast and the G&B Low Floater. Peter Brigg The Dogs Breakfast - created by Maxi Holder in 1987
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Maxi Holder’s Dog’s Breakfast is arguably the first indigenous streamer pattern for marine fish that achieved recognition amongst the local salt water fly fishing community. It was a fly that Maxi created on one of her fishing trips with friends to Kozi Bay in Zululand in 1987.
“Fly tying has always been an integral social function on fly fishing trips. I recall wonderful times with friends claiming a spot around the battered camping table for their vise and supply of fly tying materials. Ideas would be exchanged freely along with good-natured insults. I have always maintained that the most successful flies are those tied within sight and sound of the sea.
Maxi also created, two other salt water flies, namely the Inhaca Parrot and the Toothless Budgie, both of which have earned enduring reputations as outstanding salt water flies.
I have managed to keep my saltwater fly tying materials as simple as possible. My saltwater fly designs, such as the Inhaca
Maxi related a little of her story surrounding the creation of the Dogs Breakfast and how it www.saflyfishingmag.co.za
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