Sowbug Roundup is a three day fly tying and fly fishing show that is held in Mountain Home, Arkansas. The next event will be held Mar 27th, 28th, and 29th of 2025.
I will be a fly tying demonstrator at this year’s Roundup. Part of the duties of a demonstrator is to donate three flies for the auction. The flies will be put into a framed collage and sold at the Fly Tyer’s Dinner on Friday, March 28th.
For my auction flies, I have chosen three flies from Mary Orvis Marbury’s magnificent 1892 book Favorite Flies and Their Histories. It’s a revolutionary book for its time and one I refer to often.
One of my flies is from the Lake Fly section, one is from the Trout Fly section, and one is from the Bass Fly section of the book. Here are the flies I have chosen:
And here are the original images from the book where they came from:
No. 64 Lord Baltimore (Lake Fly)
No. 116 Orange Coachman (Trout Fly)
No. 273 Mather (Bass Fly)
