Article: Dry fly buzzes back in the fray.(News)

Article: Fishing line: It's dry-fly Freddie: lock up your bait
The Independent - London;  May 19, 2002 ;     461 words ......fishing on chalk streams was with a dry fly. Hyam later changed his name to Halford...his thesis was taken very seriously. Dry- fly fishing means using an artificial...ruled it was unacceptable to cast a dry fly randomly. You could only do so if...

Article: DRY FLY FOOLED WILD BROWNIE.(Features)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  April 27, 2007 ;     357 words ......fool it into believing your small dry fly is the real thing. My biggest wild...t really sport, was caught on the dry fly. It fell to a Wickham's Fancy one...plop about everywhere. Fishing the dry fly on lochs is also rewarding and exciting...

Article: Plying the deceptive art of the dry fly
The Press;  March 5, 2001 ;     480 words ......son caught his first-ever trout on a dry fly last week. He was fishing Lake Moeraki...the first fish they ever caught on a dry fly, and rightly so. It's a way of fishing...trout. For a start, just getting the dry fly on the surface without spooking every...

Article: dry fly
The Oxford American College Dictionary;      14 words ...dry fly • n. an artificial fishing fly that is made to float lightly on the water.

Article: TRIALS AND FUN OF FLY-TYING
The Boston Globe;  February 25, 1987 ;     700+ words ......themselves. Because of its beauty, my first dry fly was the Fan-Wing Royal Coachman. I...proprietor how to tie hackle on a dry fly. This was shortly after I had purchased...inches long. By comparison, a typical dry fly for trout is about three-eighths of...

Article: FISHING TWO FLIES AT ONCE WILL INCREASE CHANCES; IF THE DRY FLY IS FLOATING DRAG-FREE, THEN THE WET FLY BENEATH IS DRIFTING NATURALLY.(SERIES: Fishing Guide 2002)(Special section)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  March 20, 2002 ;     653 words ......and their Hatches, said he fishes a dry fly and a nymph simultaneously about 90...his tandem rig, Meck first knots a dry fly to the tippet of a standard tapered...diameter - and ties it to the bend of the dry fly hook. Finally, he ties a nymph to...

Article: A seasonal blowout/ Wind frustrates Arkansas dry-fly casting, but drifting nymphs is worth the effort
The Gazette;  March 31, 2002 ;     666 words ......River in spring. "I think I'll try a dry fly" Roger Hill said, replacing a wind...your leader to cast anything - even a dry fly - into the wind," Hill had noted...not, but it's part of the routine. Dry-fly fishing is among the attractions of...

Article: Five-In-One Fly: Making more out of less.(Sportsman's Notebook/Rigging Up)
Field & Stream (West ed.);  October 1, 2003 ;     228 words ......angler carrying several hundred fly patterns should so often lack...everywhere, and nothing in your fly boxes that'll fool the fish...here and there can turn one fly into five--and zero fish into...radially, it's a high-floating dry fly, which may be what the trout...you've got a ...

Article: The Mighty Midge: Why the smallest fly in your box is the ticket to big winter action.
Field & Stream (West ed.);  December 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......will tell you that he only sees a dry fly part of the time. During most drifts...from the fly. Others attach a larger dry fly to the tippet, then fasten a foot...surface film, and you use standard dry-fly tactics. Either try a special midge...

Article: GETTING DOWN TO BARE BONES; IF YOU COULD USE ONLY ONE FLY FOR TROUT, WHICH WOULD IT BE?(SERIES: Fishing Guide 2003)(Sports)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  March 19, 2003 ;     700+ words ......familiar selections, such as the Adams dry fly, and some surprises. Pennsylvania...wet flies. I'd use a size 16 Adams dry fly, said Dave Garlock of LaFayette. First...size 16 elk hair caddis, a suggestive dry fly pattern, as his any-time fly. In the...

Article: THE ART OF DRY-FLY FISHING HAS ALLURE THE CATCH IS TO KNOW TRICKS OF THE TRADE.(Travel)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  May 10, 1992 ;     700+ words ......no other lure works as well as a dry fly. Trout, even a hungry trout, will...with its components, the body of a dry fly consists of yarn, fur, feather quills...Upright wing - The most common type of dry fly, this style has standing wings resembling...

Article: Fly fishing brings satisfaction.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  July 3, 2002 ;     700+ words ......insect imitation on the surface. As the dry fly drifted down the edge of the current...tired of seeing a trout rise to take a dry fly, said Hutton, 74, of Independence...fishing. You won't find anything but a dry fly tied on my line. And most of the time...

Article: Try a dry fly. (fishing)
Outdoor Life;  June 1, 1985 ;     700+ words ......encourage you to try the simplicity of the dry fly. The Great Deception grew from the...particular trout on a floating fly. The dry fly is as close to a universal bait as...they are at others. Don't start your dry-fly fishing on New York's Beaverkill...

Article: Angling: The fly's the limit for aspirations of an editor
The Independent - London;  October 24, 1999 ;     655 words ......all very well, but he has discovered dry-fly fishing. This is the fishing equivalent...ball only to backward square leg. The dry-fly target is invariably trout. Even salmon...stuff by real purists. Now, using a dry fly means presenting an artificial fly...