Re: [VFB] Re: DonO's microscopic flies

[Don Ordes]

Title: Re: DonO's microscopic flies

Dan, if you're serious about fishing a #32, fish it as a dropper 8" below a size 14 humpy or other high-floating fly, on a 1 or 2 wt, with 8x tippet connecting it to the humpy.  Fish it alongside undercut banks. It can and has been done.  I haven't- you think I'm crazy???  Oh, and use a Shakespeare reel, per Dan W.   DonO  Off to the "Big Boy's Toys" show at the events center. Later     ----- Original Message ----- From: Daniel W. Crowe To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 11:32 AM Subject: Re: [VFB] Re: DonO's microscopic flies Dan   So what you're saying is maybe a 3 wt with a 9x tippet, small streams so you can see it, maybe some of those alpine streams up in the Cascades that are full of smaller westslope cutthroat. Keep the loop tight and make sure the line is straight out before it settles on the water. Don't fish any fast water, just keep to the pools and eddies and make sure you get a good, clean, drag-free drift.   Just wanted to make sure I was following your answer.   Dan ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan/Sal Wheaton To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 8:02 PM Subject: [VFB] Re: DonO's microscopic flies Dan Crowe asked re DonO's midge: >How do you tie something that small, and how do you fish it? Norman Maclean did not I think say this, but (perhaps quoting his Calvinist father), he might well have: One fishes it in exactly the way one approaches fly-fishing in general, thankful to have been reminded that all such fishing constitutes after all an act of faith and aspires to a state of Grace.  Samuel Johnson once said of Shakespeare's plays, "No one but a blodkhead ever wrote for any reason other than money." To which I respond, "That may be so, but that's no explanation for why he thought he had to make his plays _that_ good." The same applies here, leading us to say to ourselves, in all humility: "Thanks Don. The world's a better place for your having been in it." Dan W