Comment: Hi Colin, looking good , i`ll be following your progress for sure

Comment: VERY cool website.....looking forward to watching it grow. Please link mine to yours.....and i'll do the same for you. mark..... ;>)

Comment: Hi. Loooks so good, hope you post pics of all your old flies, i really love to look at them. All the best. K-O

Comment: Superb website, lots of useful information. I'm looking forward to hearing more about Aberdeen's rodmakers.

Comment: Well done... interesting website...look forward to watching it's development. Please consider linking to the Richard Wheatley Museum.

Comment: Lovely site Colin, like the others I'm looking forward to seeing it grow. Not the easiest to find, but got here eventually, the wonders of google.

Comment: i love your website i am looking forward to seeing the elle-bell best wishes ellie

Comment: Nice one !!!!

Comment: This site is now at the top of my "Favourites". Would hate to miss any additions. Good luck

Comment: hi all from canada ,what a wonderfull site you have, i truely enjoyed it , i have a few classic reels in my collection and use them when i guide on bamboo rods , i have a fondness for dingleys and young's , hardys and i even have a sweet older sharps scottie reel with red agate , was so nice to read your pages , well done , come for a fish sometime in canada with me on the bow river , canada's # 1 best trout river

Comment: Great site Colin, well done. I have a couple of Dee's for you, let me know where to send them. Looking forward to the book. Regards Chris.

Comment: Looking forward to the book, but a fine website. Congratulations will be in order when the book is finely published!!!!!

Comment: Great site Colin i check it every day. I love looking at the old flies Rocky

Comment: I love your web site nice to see all the vintage flies and takele. Keep up with the great work and I look forward to seeing more. thanks James

Comment: Being an Aberdonian a lot of this will bring back memoriesof Brown's and Dicksons in Belmont Street.

Comment: Nicely done, looking forward to your book. Please keep the site updated on the book's progress, title and release date. Info on J S Sharpe is great,

Comment: Excellent website with lots of great information. Looking forward to future visits. DPLee

Comment: Very Very Nice

Comment: Hello Colin, Very nice meeting you at the British Fly Fair, I hope we get the chance to meet again. I've thoroughly enjoyed browsing your website.

Comment: Colin, Please post the P-T article you mention in "cool stuff". I'm sure a lot of people would be very interested in it. Website is progressing very well. Still one of my first ports of call Barry

Comment: Colin this is a very nice and informative site. I am going to bookmark it and will visit every so often. Bob

Comment: Great Site!! Love the vintage Dee's!! Marked as a favorite!

Comment: Outstanding web site, and very interesting subject. The Dee, it's people, fishing, and history has always fasinated me.

Comment: Colin, My congratulations on an exceptional site. Something here for everyone. The history of patterns and flies (especailly to little known and obscure) is especially interesting to me. Thank you for your work on this site and also to those who have contributed infomation for you to include.

Comment: Excellent Site Colin , Keep up the good work.

Comment: Colin Thanks for taking time to contact me and make me aware about your informative site.I will promote it through some contacts and mediums which will assist you reach a wide base of viewers.Best wishes with your endeavours and congratulations for producing suc good reference material. Ken Reid DDSFB Aberdeenshire

Comment: Good site; I know a lot of research has gone into this at various places up and down the river (The Boat Inn, Potties, to name only two). Looking forward to having a few casts with you at Tannar Mouth with Alex in the new year. Great site, Dave

Comment: Very cool website! Fascinating artifacts, facts, and fables. Too bad you can't put a nice Scot accent on all the descriptions... just for effect. Thanks for sharing a wealth of information.

Comment: Just read your biog. I have evidently confused you with another Colin Innes who is a solicitor in Edinburgh! Sorry! Donald

Comment: Hi Colin, I am interested in obtaining information on Hugh Snowie of Inverness and would appreciate any information or references regarding his life, business, or family, that you know of.

Comment: Dear Colin, Surely the missing "Benkle" is the "Benchill" named after the Tay beat? It strikes me that we are dealing with uneducated spelling in some local quarter here. Yours aye, Donald

Comment: Inspired Site, I'll be visiting frequently

Comment: Wonderful resource to brows through. Thanks your for your hard work.

Comment: This post concerns the Spey flies series in Knox's book of 1872. First the Riach series which Knox calls "Reeach". If only dear old Knox had realised how this mis-spelling grates with the Scots. The name is Riach, with the "ch" pronounced as in the Scots word for a lake namely "loch", not as in the word "reach". The surname Riach derives from the old Scots Gaelic word for "royal". I think I may have identified the man Riach after whom these flies are called. He was a prominent businessman and civic councillor in the area in the nineteenth century. More info soon. As to the Speal series. The word "speal", pronounced "spyal" is the Scots Gaelic word for a scythe. Look at the shape of the wing of the fly. It is just like a scythe-blade. Gaelic started to disappear from Dee-side shortly after the Reformation but many of the Gaelic names in the locality are preserved to this day - see "The Place-names of Upper Deeside" published by Aberdeen University Press about 1980. As for Speyside, well, without keeping the Gaelic associations, a whole lot of distilleries would go out of business!

Comment: Fascinating site - Superb achievement

Comment: wonderful and useful site colin. i'll be around often, Bud

Comment: Wow, I am most impressed. Bought a JS Sharpe Rod the other day and was just looking it up and found your site. I've been collecting for 3 or so years and have a few items I need to identify so my contact you again idf that is acceptable. Cheers Chappie

Comment: Hello Colin, I see I will be spending some time on this lovely website. Cheers, Muzzy

Comment: very nice website - using sometie my 8.3scottie with my gordon reel - amazing troutfishing - go ahead pls

Comment: a lot of work done here mate, looking forward to its progress

Comment: Colin, great site, loads of info look for ward to seeing site grow.

Comment: Hi Colin. Great site mate. I just fished Dee last week,wish I could have paid you a visit for a chat and a pint. I went to visit Somers but they were closed unfortunately. Keep up the great work/site. Best Regards Neil.

Comment: I wish I had found this site a long time ago. This is not just a great web site, it's a brilliant historical resource. I am in you debt and that will only grow as I spend more time looking around, studying and benefit from all that is there!

Comment: I came upon your site while trying to find more of W. Murdochs writings about flies for the Dee. Very cool! I particularly like the pictures and illustrations of vintage flies. I am a fly tier, and it's really good to see what they looked like when they were originated. I just added you to my faforites. Very nice!

Comment: Fantastic website,very interesting. Any info on Edinburgh tackle makers? All the best, Alan.

Comment: VEry Cool! loads of info on here.

Comment: Superb website, Colin. I visit all the time, just gettin around to signing in. Thanks for all of the fascinating information! -Jeff

Comment: Great site Colin, its "Ellie Belle" for me. Frederick. UK.

Comment: Colin, wonderful site!I see a lot of friends have beaten me here.Let us all know when your book comes out.I know John Shewey is coming out with another book on Spey flies also. His first book has always been my bible up to now.Say Hi to Phillip Glendinning. He's a hard man to keep in touch with. Cheers, Joel

Comment: Hi Colin, your site is one of the best the fly plates,patterns and imformation is just great to see. All the best.

Comment: Colin your website is a fascinating, very good job in archiving Aberdeens flies, Are you going to the BFFI if so I will hope to catch up with you there. Best Regards Sarah

Comment: You have created a very interesting site, i will visit it very often. Interesting to see a picture of colin simpson and of the huts by river dee

Comment: Brilliant site and very informative. Will definitely buy the book. Recognise your picture from seeing you at tackle auctions. I have a number of vintage flies in my collection and will try and find some which may be of use

Comment: exellent web sight, enjoyed the fly archive, look forward to the book

Comment: Colin, I am linking to your site immediately. It's an important catalogue that deserves much broader recognition and I'm sure it will achieve that.

Comment: I have always liked fly fishing and your site is great.I will email my brother out west the link.

Comment: Ernest Calder, gunmaker, founded his shop at 67/69 King St in 1913. He was the son of William Calder of Guild St. Ernest Calder's shop closed in 1959. The "branch" of William Calder in George St was probably a shop of Grace Calder, his daughter. Ernest is my grandfather.

Comment: I have been looking for a pattern with a mohair wing and found one on your lovely site. Thank you for a great resource. Now to the tying bench to give it a go.

Comment: I have an ongoing love-affair with Dee patterns and to be honest,, I think i have found a new home!!!!! Just an amazing site you have here Colin!!!

Comment: Great website, I like the historical elements. My youth was spent in Aberdeen working for a gunsmiths there so some of these names are very familiar to me as gunmakers as well as fishing tackle makers. Playfair is the name that sticks out for me due to the important gun making business. Both Charles Playfair( I) and John Lyell have nice headstones in the King Street Cemetery in Aberdeen.

Comment: One of the best sites for an incredible journey through classic fishing, thank you.

Comment: Obviously my interest springs from my namesake. And I'll be darned if old J.S. doesn't look just like my grandfather. Appreciate the fine effort you've made here! Would love to hear more about Sharpe's rods especially the trout rods, their histories, values and their actions. ie: what action would a Featherweight 8' 6" have? What line would best fit it? Where would it fall in a quality ranking of Sharpe rods. Would also enjoy learning more about The Gordon reels. Thanks so much! Dave