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Article: Plying the deceptive art of the dry fly
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- The Press
- Article date:
- March 5, 2001
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A reader writes to say his son caught his first-ever trout on a
dry fly last week. He was fishing Lake Moeraki and gave up his chuck-
and- chance methods to try the fly.
The note brought back many memories. I think every angler recalls
the first fish they ever caught on a dry fly, and rightly so. It's a
way of fishing quite different to any other method.
I'm not saying it's elitist or superior, simply different.
To a student of the piscatorial art, the very act of casting a
feathered imitation upon the water and expecting a trout to believe
that it's food is quite different to the deception sought by a
feathered lure designed to swim beneath the surface and create an
instinctive reaction ...