Article: One Wild & Crazy Fly.(caddis-flies)(includes related article on vendors)(Brief Article)

YELLOW LINE ALOFT, slicing air like a lariat, I wade the Beaverkill River in search mode, waiting for a visual. So when a rise stirs the surface, I instantly shoot line out, dropping the fly into the rings, right on top of the fish.

Pardon me, sir, if this is a breach of archetypal dry-fly technique. There is no delivery far above the trout, no long, drag-free float. On the next cast, I break again from tradition, drifting the fly toward a fish, then skittering it for motion and life. My reason for the off-beat, aggressive approaches? I'm not casting the time-honored erect-winged mayfly--I'm fishing an imitation of the prosaic caddis.

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