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)

Byline: J. Michael Kelly Staff writer

You might not double your catch, but a well-known Pennsylvania angler promises you'll hook more trout this season if you learn to fish two flies at once.

Charles Meck, the author of "Patterns, Hatches, Tactics and Trout" and "Pennsylvania Trout Streams and their Hatches," said he fishes a dry fly and a nymph simultaneously "about 90 percent of the time."

He recently elaborated on the tactic, via e-mail, from his winter residence in Arizona.

"About 15 years ago, a guide named Richie Montella suggested I try the rig on the Bighorn River in Montana," Meck recalled. "It worked so well there that I ...

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