OK, let the fun begin... Nymphs (except floating ones), in my limited understanding, are wet flies, but not all wet flies are nymphs. This is, of course, if you are referring to a wet fly being a Wet Fly (capitalized only to emphacize segregation); one that has wings and a tail as in a Leadwing Coachman, Cowdung, etc.
And, unless I don't understand the post, I don't see the how the angling technique has anything to do with the classification of the fly. I mean I swing dry flies from time to time (fodder for another thread) but they are still dry flies (wet dry flies, but dry flies nonetheless). I fish (when I actually get out to fish) spiders upstream and drag free but they are far from a dry fly nor are they dry. So, to summarize: Nymphs are wet but not necessarily Wet Flies nor do they have to truly be all wet as in the case of a floating nymph (Swisher & Richards variety). Wet Flies are wet, unless they are not, and such is also the case with soft hackles. For streamers I will have to claim ignorance as I have yet to see a Tailwalking Sculpin dressing, although it's probably out there. Dry Flies, however, are dry flies until I get my fat little paws on them and fish them on an AirFlo fast sinking PolyLeader at which point they become a very wet yet still a Dry. Nothing better than a succinct explantion culminating in lucid opacity. Don --- Vincent Pons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 .... > > ===== "Come on baby buy my flies", Jim Morrison, The Doors www.geocities.com/salmn8r/northwestcountryflies.html - check it out! Want an email address that never changes? Just ask me about lifelongemail. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/
