a thought? yes - you should have joined my winged wet fly swap. iain
I've been reading "A Trout& Salmon Fisherman for 75 Years" by Edward Hewitt. On page 151: " Now as to the comparative effectivenes of the wet and dry fly in taking trout I would like to say that I have given this matter lenghty and serious study. When fish are rising to surface insects freely, no way of fishing is better than the dry fly or will catch more fish. However, over most of the trout season these conditions do not prevail, and trout get most of their food from organisms below the surface of the water." "In order to test this out, I tried for several seasons fishing a piece of water up with a dry fly and again back down with a wet fly. One day I would go down first and the next day I would come upstream first so that each type of fly would have first chance at the water in turn. I found that for the whole season the wet fly would take about twice as many trout as the dry fly." Any thoughts on this ? As most know I like a dry fly- I have never had the time or persistance or opportunity to fish one piece of water over and over again. So I have never tested one piece of water: like Mr. Hewitt. I guess this should make dry fly fishers start using more wet flies. Ed --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? New! SBC Yahoo! Dial - 1st Month Free & unlimited access _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
