Jock Scott fly

The Jock Scott is a dress salmon fly created in 1850 by John (Jock) Scott, born at Branxholm in Roxburghshire in 1817.[1]

The Jock Scott has been used as a metaphor for fly fishing in general. The protagonist of The Edwardians by Vita Sackville-West is described as follows at the coronation of George V: "He was bored, he was disgusted; he wished that he might be casting a Jock Scott into the Tay."[2]

  1. ↑ see fish4flies website
  2. ↑ The Edwardians by Vita Sackville-West (pub. 1930) (see Vintage Classics, 2016, p. 242)
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