Mary Orvis Marbury writes touchingly of this Bass fly's creation in Favorite Flies and Their Histories:

"The Tipperlinn.
A long time ago, in the first of our fly-making, a dear friend was often beside the fly-table, embroidery in hand or reading aloud, while we busied ourselves with the flies. Much of her time had been spent in Scotland, and a house where many of her happiest days had been passed was called Tipperlinn. One day, as we were busy together, she said suddenly, 'Now make a fly unlike anything you ever have made before, for I have a name I want to give it.' The fly was made, and she called it Tipperlinn. Memory often brings visions of Mattie Williamson's bright face, winning manners, and gracious intelligence, and we cannot yet feel reconciled that she could not have been spared longer to us, she was so talented and so lovely, and loved and needed by so many."

The Tipperlinn Recipe:

Thread: Black
Tag: Red floss
Tail: Yellow, scarlet and metallic black cock tail feather
Butt: Black ostrich Herl
Body: White floss
Ribbing: Red floss
Hackle: Black
Wing: Guinea Feathers