Article: DARE TO BE A DRAG WHEN FLY FISHING.(Sports)(Column)

Article: When Nothing's Rising: Why you should learn to swing wet ...
Field & Stream (West ed.);  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... rise and decided to split up and swing wet flies, hoping to pick up a few fish before ... about anything. These and other simple wet flies and soft hackles--the Brown Hackle ... problem you may encounter when swinging wet flies is missing strikes. On most takes ...

Article: EXPAND YOUR FLY-FISHING HORIZONS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  May 24, 1995 ;     662 words ... ... Simplified Fly Fishing" (Harper and ... traditional wet flies be fished in ... technique for wet flies and streamers ... excitement of dry-fly fishing, probing the ... popularity of dry-fly fishing relegated wet flies to a less important ...

Article: BLAST FROM THE PAST ANTIQUE WET FLIES GET ATTENTION ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  July 12, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... always, classic wet flies can brighten otherwise ... flamboyant times, when fly fishing arose from art ... in high-dollar fly-fishing schools. Word might get out that fly fishing isn't rocket ... Trout nailed her wet flies in a manner that ...

Article: Retro fly-fishing is effective
Sunday News Lancaster, PA;  April 6, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... butter of the fly-fishing industry ... without eyes. "Wet flies are effective when ... Pennsylvania's favorite fly-fishing author, Charlie ... a cast of three wet flies, allowing them ... aspect of wet-fly fishing is covering the ... effectiveness of bright ...

Article: Lowly sow bug becomes silk purse of wet ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  May 29, 2007 ;     695 words ...Byline: Ed Dentry, Rocky Mountain News The humble sow bug has been gaining a foothold in the fly-fishing door lately. A couple years ago, I found trout stuffed with the segmented underwater crawlers at Spinney Mountain Reservoir ...

Article: Poetic fishermen. (works on fly fishing)
The Economist (US);  November 28, 1992 ;     700+ words ... ... Through It", is all about fly-fishing. It was inevitable that ... differences between dry-fly fishing in America and dry-fly fishing in Britain. In America ... In Scottish lakes, "wet" flies, dragged through the water ...

Article: Fly-fishing provides return to slower pace
Sunday News Lancaster, PA;  March 12, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... fisher using nymphs and wet flies; I do catch fish that ... way of life. My first fly-fishing/fly-tying book was ... provided the foundation of fly-fishing in America. Flick later ... expert did a chapter on wet flies, and another wrote about ...