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Yellow Sally Stimmie

Most folks think of Randall Kaufmann, famed West Coast angler and shop owner, as the inventor of the Stimulator, but the question seems up for debate. The fly's true originator may be Jim Slattery, who claims that he first tied the stonefly pattern to fish the Musconetcong River in central New Jersey in 1980. Based on the Sofa Pillow, Slattery's fly was originally called the Fluttering Stonefly, but he renamed it the Stimulator after a New York City punk-rock group.

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Uploaded on July 25, 2012
Taken on July 25, 2012