Re: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY

[DonO]

Henk, in looking at the big picture, you are completely right.  Dry surface-film parachute flies, with the hook dangling below the surface, are proven killers.  Many other effective fly designs also break the 'rule' stated in the QFTD.   That being said, I've been in fishing circumstances ( I can think of at least a dozen) where the trout were so finicky for high-floating flies, that I had to change the fly after every fish to get a dry-enough fly.  If I cast too low and the fly tapped the surface or made a ripple, they would ignore it.  If I cast about a foot or two over the surface and let the fly lightly touch down over the same fish, it would come out of the water going after it.  I must have caught 20 fish this way one day on the Swan River in Montana, fish which would take no other fly.  Another day, and it may not have mattered.   But right now, parachute adams flies, size 20, are the killer dry flies on the N. Platte in the evenings and during rises.   DonO     ----- Original Message ----- From: Henk Verhaar To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 6:18 AM Subject: Re: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY On 12 Aug, 2004, at 15:00, Jimmy D. Moore offered as Quote of the Day: "The best dry flies ride high on the water, supported only by their hackle tips and tail fibers (another help in breaking outline).  Choose those that are tied on hooks of light fine wire and with stiff, vibrant hackles.  Place a fly on a book or flat surface and hold it to eye level.  If the hook touches the surface, the fly is either poorly tied or the hackles and tail fibers fail to meet dry-fly standards." As has been shown ad nauseam over the last 20 years or so, including in this forum, the above, oft repeated, 19th century fallacy, is just that, utter BS... ====================Heisenberg was right!========================= | Dr. Henk J.M. Verhaar | | | Principal | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | Ecotoxicology specialist | home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | ENVIRON Netherlands B.V. | | | Zeisteroever 17 | phone: +31 30 698 6218 | | NL-3704 GB Zeist | fax: +31 30 698 6239 | | the Netherlands | | ====================Uncertainty happens!==========================