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This Year's Fly

The fly was developed for Mike Cummins aka Poppy as my way of giving him some recognition for the active role he has played within the spey rod community over the years. He has done more for the sport of two handed steelhead fishing than anyone I know.

The original Poppy spey and it's sister fly, a full dressed Atlantic salmon version were put in a shadowbox and given to Poppy in March of 2009. That same year Robin Moore painted a copy of the fly and presented it to Poppy at the Red Shed spey clave in September.

The Poppy spey incorporates all of Poppy's favorite steelhead colors in it, and amazingly enough it has become a extremely effective steelhead fly. Tied in small sizes for the Clearwater river it consistently out produces most of the old standby flies. The fly, like the man it was made for, is beginning to get a very large group of followers.

Dave Tucker Dreams on the Fly