Tom Nakashima wrote:

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 had the same experience last year when fishing the Little River in
the Smokies. I was fishing a #16 para Adams (the first and last fly I
tie on) upstream and it got swamped in a riffle. I just let it go and
tightened up my line to follow it and a little bow took it while it was
drifting past me underwater.


Chuck Vance (that was the closest I got to nymph fishing the
whole trip)