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Webdesigner
and writer, Melynda Jarratt with her father,
Sidney Jarratt, on the occasion of his 85th birthday on
April 15, 1999. Melynda is holding a framed collection
of her father's Classic Salmon Flies.
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as long as I can remember - and a long time before that - my father, Sidney
Jarratt, has tied salmon and trout flies for the sports fishermen of New
Brunswick. From the Miramichi to the Restigouche, the Nepisiquit to the
Teteagouche, he has developed a reputation for his excellence and dedication
to the art and sport of fly fishing.
But what a lot of people don't realize is that 1999 marks the 60th year my father has been tying flies, and after more than a half century, it's about time his story was told.
But to
hear the whole account, you have to know about a chance encounter involving
an eavesdropping American aunt, her friend who knew about sport fishing,
and a prophetic note which advised him to "tie his own."
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