"Tom Nakashima" wrote in message
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"JT" wrote in message
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"Tom Nakashima" wrote in message
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It was Dave Whitlock who taught me to pick up a rock from the river
and rub the fly in the moss to kill the scent from your hands before
making
a presentation to the fish.

Dries, wet or all flies?

JT

Dave does this on dries, wets and nymphs, so I'm assuming all flies.
I also read it in one of Whitlock's books I have at home, I'll see if I
can
dig it up again over the weekend. When I saw Dave at the ISE show I
questioned him on this, and he told me it's a very important step before
the presentation to the fish.

Very important? Unmitigated crap. Billions of fish caught by millions of
people who never rubbed anything on a fly say otherwise.

Makes good sense to me.

A highly subjective and idiosyncratic judgement.

I love reading and talking to experts about fishing techniques, and
sometimes it surprises me the little things that these well established
anglers do.

There is good reason to be surprised by much of what they do.

I have NEVER used anything from a stream to mask whatever scent might be on
a fly. I catch roughly 2.5 times as many fish as Whitlock and 7 times as
many as you.

Wolfgang