Article: Fishing line: It's dry-fly Freddie: lock up your bait

A reader who has just taken a holiday in Devon was miffed to discover that he wasn't allowed to dangle a line in the hotel's waters, even though he had taken tackle along specially. He had piled his car high with rods, reels, seats and bait boxes, only to find that the river alongside the hotel was strictly for trout - and that meant fly fishing.

Our reader was not a fisherman. His son was the passionate angler. But he wrote to me, asking very reasonably: "How come my son wasn't allowed to fish with worms for trout, and that my suggestion that he stick a fly on the hook was met with scorn?" Good question. The basic

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