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Article: When Nothing's Rising: Why you should learn to swing wet flies before the hatch.(Fly Fishing)
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- Field & Stream (West ed.)
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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Byline: John Gierach
A FRIEND AND I WERE STANDING ON THE bank of a river in western Colorado one afternoon, with our rods tucked under our arms, watching trout feeding on mayflies. Usually when fishermen are doing that they're planning their next move, but in this instance we had simply caught so many trout before the fish even started to rise that we were taking a break.
We'd arrived on the water hours before the expected afternoon rise and decided to split up and swing wet flies, hoping to pick up a few fish before the main event began. As it turned out, that tactic was the main event.
My standard fly for this kind of fishing is a lightly ...