Alan, I get back for meetings occasionally and when I do I always try to add a day or two to the agenda and head out on the stream. It means carrying my Simms equipment bag on the airline each time but a small price to pay for getting back on the river. It is a big void living here. Golf is great but does not fill the flyfishing hunger.
Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Di Somma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 4:45 AM Subject: Re: [VFB] Rules about weight/fly orientation? DonO3 > 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 > > >
