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Old December 11th, 2007, 07:51 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
Mike[_6_]
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On 11 Dec, 20:49, Scott Seidman wrote:

Yes, that certainly is one way to fish a wet fly effectively, but all the
old gents I know that tie on a cast of three or four winged wet flies (the
same three or four flies for one or two seasons!) who swing down and across
while wading downstream certainly catch many big fish-- and they work much
less hard at it than a nymph fisherman, certainly.

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Scott
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Indeed, it works, but it is much more successful, ( although
admittedly a lot more work), upstream.

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