Mike: Are you back from Hawaii or just a respite?
Alan Di Somma Phoenix,AZ. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Bliss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 10:06 PM Subject: Re: [VFB] Rules about weight/fly orientation? DonO3 > most of my flies are not > > weighted..the reason being, and this is my own idea, I think that the > heavy > > weight makes the fly behave in a manner that is not typical of flies > > > > I have some itches here that need to be scratched. I have heard this a lot > and frankly I have a little problem with this. I am not sure an unweighted > fly acts like a normal fly all that much. I have no empirical evidence but > I would say that depending on the movement of the water a weighted fly may > in fact act more like a natural. In a pond a heavy weight might put a fly > to the bottom like a dead weight but in a fast moving stream it may move > more consistently like a natural than something that is just tumbling out of > control. As I said - no evidence just my limited experience. I would guess > I catch just as many fish with the weighted as I do the unweighted. Two > weeks ago while on the Provo I was having an incredible day with a weighted > fly after several varieties of both weighted and non-weighted earlier had > done little. I was fishing the same area same technique. > > Just need to itch, > > Mike >
