Fly Box ArcheologyI've been going through some photos I got to make earlier this year when I borrowed Tom Morgan's fly boxes for a few weeks. How and why I got to do this is a long story. It sure was a fun project.
Tom had a zillion flies. People sent flies to Tom a lot. Tom never threw anything out but in the trout fishing in Montana context he seldom fished
anything that wasn't tied by Al Troth.
One of his favorite "Not in the middle of a hatch" ways to fly fish was drifting from a relatively small square-ended aluminum skiff he had built by Midwest Welding in Bozeman, Montana. From that little skiff he liked to fish what he referred to as the Morgan Twitch--casting small black or brown Girdle Bugs or relatively small and unweighted Thundercreek Minnows.
Here's a small #12 Girdle Bug that came out of his working fly boxes. This fly had been fished. I had to carefully brush off a bit of rust on the hook before photographing it.
Below is a link to a little story Tom wrote about the Morgan Twitch.
https://montana-riverboats.com/?robopage=Flies/Tom-Morgan/morgantwitch.htm