Re: [VFB] Rules about weight/fly orientation? DonO3

[Tony Spezio]

Mike,
Plan on making time for March 17-19 2005.
Tony
Mike Bliss wrote:
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]>
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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
     

 

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