Ok, I am going to have to plead ignorance here and ask the question as to
what is a "flymph". It sounds like something which might be uttered by
a politician. By the way, I fish any fly whatever way it catches
fish, regardless of how that fly is classified.
Thanks,
Roger
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 2:10
PM
Subject: Re: Wet flies (was new
hook)
I don't think it's a east coast thing.
When you include
nymphs, I think wet flies probably account
for the vast majority of fish
caught in the west. Of course
it depends a lot on the water. I
have never done any good
below the surface on Silver Creek. But on
the Deschutes (OR)
nymphs, streamers, soft hackles and flymphs produce day
in and
day out. If you only fished drys, you would have lots of
bad
days.
I love to swing a soft hackle or a flymph with a down
and
across cast or even a dead drift in a current seam. When it's
productive, I probably enjoy it as much as dry fly fishing.
For the
March Brown hatch, I normally fish a pair of 14 flymphs
well into the
hatch. The adults really have to be coming off
in bunches and the
fish have to go crazy before I shift to a
dry fly. I feel I catch
bigger fish that way.
Over the years I have drifted away from the
traditional soft
hackles. I usually fish much smaller (16's and 18's
or smaller)
unless I am fishing a specific hatch...like March Browns.
That's
probably because I fish a lot of water where the BWO's are
important.
I have also gone more toward the flymph. This year I am
going to
make a point of fishing some of the traditional soft
hackles.
Great thread BTW. I've really enjoyed it.
Jim
Jones
Mark Steudel wrote:
> Great story! Thanks for sharing
Leland.
>
> When I see trout posts on fly fishing boards, I don't
hear very much
> about people catching trout on wet fly's. Streamers,
nymphs, dry's ...
> When I'm reading books, a lot of the authors the
write from the east
> coast talk a lot more about wet flies. Are
swinging wet flies for trout
> more of a east coast thing than a west
coast thing? Just curiuos.
>
> Mark
>
> On Thu,
2004-01-29 at 20:32, Leland Miyawaki wrote:
>
>>I was waiting
my turn to go through the hole when I heard a voice
>>behind me,
"You're not going to fish that thing are you?" He was
>>pointing at
my huge black Brooks stone dangling at the end of my big
>>fat
leader. "It seems to be what's working today," I answered. "Why
>>don't you try one of these," he said as he held out a handful of
>>small soft hackles.
>>
>>"Wow!, They look like
some low water steelhead flies I've been
tying."
>>
>>"Pretty much, they're called soft hackle flies.
I just wrote a book
>>on them called, The Soft Hackle Fly, maybe
you've seen it. My name is
>>Syl Nemes. They're much more elegant
than those chuck 'n duck things."
>>
>>He told me to put on
my floating line, quarter cast downstream, make
>>a small upstream
mend, let it swing across under tension, with maybe
>>a little
downstream mend at the end or even a Leisinring Lift, if you
>>like.
To me it was like grease-lining low water steelhead flies.
>>Anyway,
on my second pass through the hole, I stuck a big brown just
>>as
the fly straightened below me. Syl got a big laugh when the trout
>>splashed the chuck and ducker fishing below
me.
>>
>>Leland.
>
>
>
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