On Apr 29, 8:00 am, lestrout wrote:
HG - very interesting and trenchant analysis. Adding to Charlie's
thoughts about Tenkara, I recall that French anglers who ffished for
the market (making a living, not sport fishing) use wet flies. Their
technique of presentation is crucial: they take care to deliver the
wet just behind the shoulder of the target trout, which hears/senses
the incoming, turns and reflexively grabs the fly.
This too must be more efficient than bait fishing.
HG - one reason I gravitated to flies when I was learning to fish
with sunnies was to eliminate the bait by-catch, as it were. I
couldn't see the logic of killing a beneficial worm for sportfishing
the sunnies.

tl
les

Very interesting. Do you know if the French anglers were restricted in
thier catch methods by regulation?

Your pal,

TBone