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Article: USING FLIES IN TANDEM WILL ATTRACT MORE TROUT
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- March 29, 2000
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DON ECKER
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
03-29-2000
USING FLIES IN TANDEM WILL ATTRACT MORE TROUT
By DON ECKER
Date: 03-29-2000, Wednesday
Section: SPORTS
Edition: All Editions -- Four Star B, Three Star B, Two Star P, One Star B
Column: OUTDOORS
Way back when wet flies were the principal weapons used by trout
anglers, it was common to use not just one fly at the tail-end of the
leader (known as the tail fly), but to add one or even two others to the
leader, above the tail fly (the closest to the caster's hand was called
the hand fly).
The theory: If one is good, two is better; and three?
It's a fact: Trout feed under the surface up to 90 percent of the
time. So much of the time subsurface ...