Tom Nakashima wrote:
There was a thread awhile back on wet fly fishing. I'm
quite interested in fishing the wet fly.
I was wondering if dry flies could be altered on the spot,
say something like an Adams Dry Fly, altered into a wet fly
by cutting down some of the hackle? Or solutions to make
the dry fly sink without adding shots to the leader or tippet.
thanks,

Sure. Often, if the fly is not too naturally buoyant (like a
humpy) or too loaded with floatant, simply pulling the fly under
by a quick broad swing of the rod tip will be enough to sink the
fly. It's common--and effective--to pull a dry under at the end
of its drag-free dead drift and then complete the drift by
swinging the now-sunk fly until it's directly downstream.

I've trimmed dries to sort of turn them into emergers, but never
so much the final product would be considered a "wet". If I'm
that frustrated by fishing dries, I always have soft hackles or
buggers in my box.

- JR