There are Turkey winged flies, an early example of a Ewe Wasp, a couple of early flat winged style flies, a very early Matuku styled fly.. The earliest of the flies show an obvious connection to the earlier Salmon flies commonly used on the river before local patterns morphed out of them. They are not expertly tied, but are I think, precious examples of commonly tied and used flies from a bygone era.
The Fuzzy Wuzzy at the end was apparently tied by his father possibly in the mid - later 1940's and thus could possibly be one of the earlier existing examples of the Fuzzy Wuzzy in it's 'modern' tying style (the original was arguably tied almost like a Woolly Bugger) I kinda like it as its slightly bent out possibly indicating that at some point, many decades ago, a big fit angry Tongariro Rainbow probably had this in it's mouth....
