"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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"William Claspy" wrote in message
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On 7/25/06 2:31 PM, in article , "Tom
Nakashima" wrote:


"Scott Seidman" wrote in message
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If I had to use one fly all season (horrible thought!) it would be a
PT
(or maybe a Skip's Nymph).



If I went with a dry, I'd probably go with a Usual, cause I could fish
it
as a nymph in a pinch. Otherwise, I'd probably go w/ a grhe or
something
like that. PT would be another option


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Scott
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This may sound strange, but I actually had a rainbow swallow a #16 Adams
when the line & fly when under.
First time that's ever happened to me, but learned that you could
possibly
fish a dry-fly as a wet-fly.

I do that all the time, and sometimes even on purpose :-)

In particular, with an EHC or trude pattern*, swung at the end of the
drift
and given a little bit of action just under the menis...surface of the
water, it can be a deadly method!

With the Adams- and one reason I like the parachute style- the fly sits
pretty low already, and when it becomes almost-wet, or completely wet!, I
think it might resemble an emerging bug. Fish seem to like it anyhow.

Bill

*or Wolfgang's beloved Pass Lake

I prefer to fish with a partner for a number reasons (which might itself
make for an interesting discussion sometime) rather than alone. Back in
my years of troutbumdom, when every fish counted and large numbers were
important, I used to let my EHC or PL (more often the former than the
latter in those days) hang downstream in the current whenever my partner
was fishing. There were many days on which I caught as many fish that way
as by actively casting and a few when I did even better.

I was thinking similarities since I got back from my trip to Alaska, that
quantity of my catch wasn't important.
It was redundant using the same pattern after five hook-ups or so, that I
was looking for other methods
and techniques to use. Since Scott's post, I'm interested in trying the
older style of the wet-fly techniques.


I find it odd that so many fly fishers give both wet flies and streamers
short shrift these days. Both can be every bit as effective, useless,
demanding, frustrating, and rewarding as fishing with dries or nymphs.
Both broaden the range of techniques available the fisher and the tier,
and both increase the likelihood of finding something that will work when
nothing else does.


Watching a fish chase and attack a streamer or a wet is every bit as
exciting as seeing it come up for a dry.....and the spectacle typically
lasts longer.

Wolfgang

I did catch rainbows with a #4 Black Zuddler streamer, but didn't find it as
exciting as the dry fly.
I'm interested in the wet-fly and will do some research on this.
Any wet-fly advice is always welcome.
-tom