"Mike" wrote in message
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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.

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

I think it possible that Scott's point was that in casts of multiple flies
at least all but the one closest to the rod were INTENDED to be wet
flies.....which is to say sunk below the surface.....in direct contravention
to the received wisdom recently imparted by an incontrovertible
authority.......who should have maybe read 151.

My own reading of vintage fly fishing literature reveals virtually
limitless, sharp and often and strenuously voiced disagreements concerning
such matters as whether one should fish upstream or downstream, what depths
to fish at, and virtually every other aspect of where, when, why, how to,
and with what to fish. Not surprisingly, the arguments presented on all
sides of all issues tended to be just about as vapid and safely ignorable as
those presented today by the heirs to the wisdom of yesteryear.

Wolfgang
go fish.......really, just go fish.