My Goodness, Vincent ! Surely you must fish a dry fly when the hatch is on. I know it could over tax one's heart when a big fish leaps on a dry fly but what a way to go! Some people even fish poppers in the salt chuck for that kind of excitement. Cheers, -Bob
----- Original Message ----- From: "Vincent Pons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 3:26 PM Subject: RE: Wet flies (was new hook) > > Mark, > I totally agree with you. > You swing wet flies. Nymphs are not wet flies even though they can be > "deadlier" when they are not dead drifted (that's another story). > Wet flies have usually a soft hackle and they are not weighted or just a > little bit. A few years ago, I used to fish with three wet flies. Now, I > just use nymphs (no dries, no streamers, no wet flies). That's more fun > (just one fly, no additional weight and no strike indicator). That is for > trout fishing of course. > > Vincent > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:majordomo- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Steudel > > Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 2:29 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Wet flies (was new hook) > > > > "When you include nymphs, I think wet flies probably account > > for the vast majority of fish caught in the west." --Jim Jones > > > > Ok so I guess maybe my first question is how are you defining wet flies? > > I was thinking more in terms of a fly that you are swinging as opposed > > to dead drifting, which I would put under nymphing. Is this incorrect? > > And then I guess I have a particular picture of flies that I would swing > > versus dead drift. Maybe I'm limiting myself ... delinating so much. > > > > I think my classifications come mainly from Tom Rosenbourg's book, > > Prospecting For Trout, in which he divides his book into different > > sections, streamers, drys, nypmhs, wet flies. > > > > I'd be curious to see how others define .... > > >
