Article: BLAST FROM THE PAST ANTIQUE WET FLIES GET ATTENTION FROM TROUT IN BUSY RIVER.(Sports)(Column)

Byline: Ed Dentry Rocky Mountain News Outdoors Writer

PARSHALL -- Fishing Partner No. 1 was outfishing me again. No surprise there; it has happened before, most of the time.

What may have surprised the casual observer was that she was outfishing me, in this Age of the Entomologically Correct Fly Fisher, with a brace of antique wet flies.

No strike indicator. No insect sampling net or basting bulb to suck bug parts from trout innards. No Krystal Flash or biot midges. No emergers dressed with cul-de-canard (polite French for ``greasy duck-butt fluff'') or nymphs with bead heads, tungsten eyeballs.

And no short-line nymphing; that's for ...

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