Distinct Phases of Fly Fishing

There are three distinct phases of fly fishing: 1 - Dry or floating fly. 2 - Wet fly and streamer. 3 - Nymph and Larvae.

Dry fly fishing is the easiest insofar as performance is concerned, successful results is another factor.

Nymph fishing enacted properly is the most difficult of the three and requires the most knowledge and know how.

Wet fly fishing is the best known and at one time was practically the only manner in which flies were fished.

The dry fly simulates, primarily, emerged (hatched) duns, spinners egg laying, spent spinners, hatched caddis or sedge flies, hatched stone flies, ants, bees, grasshoppers and other land flies accidentally or purposely caught on the water's surface. The wet fly counterfeits nymphs and aquatic insects working to the surface to emerge as flies, aquatic or land flies damaged or dead under the surface and small minnows. The nymph fly imitates the true underwater stage of the aquatic fly in its living state preceding and up to the point where it is ready for the emergence as a flying insect. It is difficult to draw a line between the regular wet fly and the nymph fly inasmuch as the simulations overlap in many instances. The streamer fly, a type of wet fly, represents the minnow or "fry" period of the fish in the stream.

There are certain and definite periods in fishing when one of the three fly phases is dominantly the one to use for the most successful fishing. You hear or know of individual fishermen who confine themselves to one phase only and swear by it. He's eccentric and missing out on a lot of additional pleasure. Usually the fisherman who limits himself to this one phase and is not adverse to shouting about its merits is the fisherman who understands little or nothing of the other methods and doesn't want it known too widely. Use of any method of the group is as purely sportsmanlike as the others and the fisherman can class himself as a purist or stylist if he so desires.

There is a tremendous pleasure in hooking into a fish at a time when, supposedly, they're not to be caught or at a spot which other fishermen have passed up because of its apparent lack of fish life or under conditions that others believe quite impossible. The very act or move that crowns your effort with a successful termination many times was occasioned by your doing the exact thing that you weren't expected to do. Concentrate on out of the way pocket holes that are irksome to get at right, particularly if it's one of those streams where a parade of fishermen has thrashed the water literally to a boil ahead of you. Keep in mind the fact that of that thrashing parade preceding you, nineteen out of twenty fished only the obvious, easily discernible, easily reached slicks and holes. I've watched successful, experienced fishermen deliberately overlook those evident spots, under the conditions mentioned above, and proceed to fish the tough spots only, as they worked the water.

When the sun is shining brightly, and in your maneuvering about, a shadow of yourself, your rod, sometimes even your leader and fly passes over a prospective pocket and you may as well waste little time attempting to work that spot. All but small or foolish trout are gone or downed for the time. As a youngster I was instructed, and believed for many years, that you, to prevent shadows ahead of you, should keep the sun in your face. This made the surface of the water, at most angles of the sun, a confusing, flashing, moving glare which was unpleasant and difficult to penetrate in looking into the water. Later I found that there was distinctly a greater advantage, by being a bit more cautious with shadows, in keeping the sun at one's back - actually reversing my early training.

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