"Scott Seidman" wrote in message
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"Tom Nakashima" wrote in
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"Scott Seidman" wrote in message
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"Tom Nakashima" wrote in news:ea5o25$6vi$1
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This may sound strange, but I actually had a rainbow swallow a #16
Adams when the line & fly when under.


When you're trying to do this, its called wet fly fishing. Very
productive, very big fish, but unfortunately out of style. Next time
you find yourself upstream from an intermittant rise, try to take the
fish with
a wet fly, like a partridge and green. I tie a very buggy looking
hair wing wet that works very well.

Fish the wet fly like a wet fly-- quartering downstream cast, mend
upstream
to slow down the swing, and try to start the big part of the swing
right in
front of the trout you're fishing to. The more fish you take when
you do this in the perfect conditions, like the downstream
intermittant riser, the
more confidence you'll develop in the technique for general fishing
purposes.
--
Scott
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Thanks for the technique advice on the wet-fly.
Two questions, what did you mean by; unfortunately out of style?

It used to be a very popular way to fish. I still know some old timers
who use a cast of wet flies (people often fish three at once), fish them
hard the whole season, and have the same three flies tied on at the end
of the season.

People fish them much less now. I say "unfortunately" because I find it
a very pleasurable way to fish. After a hard days fishing with the
"new" methods, you're well upstream, and all but fished out. You can
wade all the way downstream, back to your car, fishing a cast of wets.
You cover alot of water very quickly, and you don't need to concentrate
very hard. You don't need to get just the right drift in tricky
currents. You don't need to make sure your fly passes within a c-hair of
the fish. You don't worry about a dead drift. You don't worry about
missing a strike (there's little ambiguity in the strike on a wet fly).
You just lazily fish, and cover water fast.

And when you said; "fish the wet fly like a wet fly" did you possibly
mean; fish the dry fly like a wet fly?
-tom


I meant you don't fish it like a dead-drift nymph. The interaction
between your line, the current, and the wet fly is central to the style.
You can, of course, dead drift them if the situation calls for it, but
this takes more concentration.


Really enjoy reading your descriptions Scott, you explain things very well.
-tom