Re: [VFB] Analphabethic grayling

[Wally Lutz]

Hi All, I'll offer a couple to read too:  "Fishing the Dry Fly as a Living Insect" (1972) & "Fly-Fishing Heresies" (1975) both by Leonard M. Wright, Jr. sadly, past on recently. Not just Grayling fall for a moving menu. I've been playing with a fly that takes 'em dead drifting, dragging, skating, sunk emerger style, completely sunk on the down stream swing, and on the hang. Call it my "No Brainer," I wanted something to maximize fishing time instead of loosing confidence in your pattern as soon as it does something not to plan. Definitely has its moments on the river. So far (three seasons) it has brought Grayling, Rainbow, Cuts, and Brookies to hand. Byard has the pattern @:     http://www.virtualflybox.com/f2300/f2352.shtml Calm days eh wally Soren Finne wrote:      Hello list, Last night I was out to my club water to exercise casting and to try some new flypatterns for their floatability. Doing so I suddenly came to see two graylings swimming slowly towards me sipping pupaes in the surface. I had just tied on a small #18 "Hatching buzzer", which I´m by way is tying for the midge swap, so I made a cast and placed the fly about 1 meter ahead of the graylings. (I could almost feel the strike.)What happens, the grayling pair approaches the fly, separates and continue their swim toward me, parallell to the flyline. Calling all the dark forces I came to think of I pulled in the line quite rapidly with the fly skating on the surface scaring any fish within half a mile - except the two graylings who raced after the fly - one of them was faster and I was able to hook him. He was not more than 12" so he just had to make me a short visit before diving back to his friend again, but I had time to see that had the typical, beautiful back fin.I can´t remember reading a single book about flyfishing that doesn´t mention the importance of a dragfree drift so my conclusion is that I had the luck to met two analphabetic graylings. (excuse my spelling and grammar) Greetings from SwedenSoren Finne