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  • Brassie - it's only a hook, copper wire and peacock herl.

    Tie or Buy? Tim Romano 2008

  • Knotting a tiny No. 20 Brassie to a wisp of 6X tippet with deadened fingers feels like trying to assemble a watch while wearing catcher's mitts.

    Fly Fishing for Trout in Winter 2005

  • A Brassie, suspended on a light dropper under a big, bushy dry, often catches trout that rise to dries but refuse them.

    Trout Fishing MVP's--Nymphs and Wets 2002

  • Most people think of the Brassie as a Western pattern, probably because it was devised to match the South Platte's midge hatches.

    Trout Fishing MVP's--Nymphs and Wets 2002

  • Next morning at Breakfast he would break it to her that the Brassie had developed too much of a Whip and he had decided to try a forty-inch

    Ade's Fables George Ade 1905

  • Next morning at Breakfast he would break it to her that the Brassie had developed too much of a Whip and he had decided to try a forty-inch Shaft.

    Ade's Fables George Ade 1905

  • "One-third of the members of the Traders 'Club do not vote, more than half of the members of the Fish and Game and the Brassie do not vote, none of the members of the other clubs vote at all," went on Mr. Stone.

    The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man George Randolph Chester 1896

  • "Other patterns like the Hare's Ear, Pheasant Tail and Brassie that are effective here were developed in England and that's another county," he said.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local <B>By Karl Licis </B><br><I>Special to the Denver 2010

  • Police have not established why Cotter, an international relations junior, was in Chesterton, Ind., about 20 miles from the Michigan-Indiana border near Lake Michigan, or why Cotter was at Brassie Golf Course, where her body was found in an area two and a half miles from the nearest major road. “For her to go to Chesterton, somebody would have to guide her there, †Cotter said.

    State News Top Stories 2009

  • In addition, The Principal Charity Classic also received two "Brassie Awards," for advertising and marketing; first place for outdoor advertisement and runner-up for Web site marketing.

    NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories 2009

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