Insect knowledge/applying it on the stream

On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:20:04 -0500, flyI4
wrote:

If it was as easy as just picking a fly that looks close off your hat
more people would flyfish instead of spinfish. Coming close rarely cuts
it on a large wild or holdover trout especially on slow dry fly pools or
tailwater fisheries.

Uh, duh, if you open your *eyes* and *look* at the insects, you can
get a pretty good idea of what they are. Mayflies, caddis flies,
flying ants, stoneflies, et al all look and fly differently. If you
can not distinguish between them, you should probably be spin fishing.

Once you have identified the insect as a caddis or whater, it is easy
to select the right color and size.

And, YES, just about everybody that haunts this nut house known as
roff has fished for wild trout, and they are all successful. So, they
*must* be doing something right.

We all wear BIG hats btw.

In article , Dave LaCourse
writes
Uh, duh, if you open your *eyes* and *look* at the insects, you can
get a pretty good idea of what they are. Mayflies, caddis flies,
flying ants, stoneflies, et al all look and fly differently. If you
can not distinguish between them, you should probably be spin fishing.

If there is a large rise of a particular insect, then yours should be
something bigger and better - the fish need to differentiate between and
exact replica and the real thing.

Dave - you swore - you said SPIN :-)
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Bill Grey