Fishing kits and equipment by Camp Samuel Granger 1877-

Author:Camp, Samuel Granger, 1877-
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Fishing
Publisher: New York, Macmillan
Published: 1913-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

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Md,tched Wing Flies

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Palmer

(Body Covenzd)

Cause Ving Fly

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(Body Bfcre)

Erect Winp Fly

Variety of rorm in Trout Flies Two-thirds natural size

eye or snell of the hook. When the wing has been bound to the hook shank up to the end of the shank it is bent over, reversed, so as to point downward along the shank, and then bound with several windings which not only make the fastening very firm but form the head of the fly. The majority of good quality American flies are made in this way. Considerable insight into the fly-tier's methods can be had by carefully dissecting a fly. Matched-wing flies have two wings and are usually tied upon the smaller sized hooks, 10 to 14. Fluttering flies I have never used and for that reason do not care to discuss. They are made with the head at the bend of the hook and the wings pointing up the shank toward the eye of the hook so that, when drawn through the water, they will, presumably, owing to the resistance, better imitate the struggles of a shipwrecked insect.

Since we are here writing principally for the beginner it does not seem advisable to discuss at any length the subject of dry flies; for dry-fly fishing is eminently a method which only the ^ advanced student in the school of fly-casting should attempt. Also dry-fly fishing is properly at home only in England, where it is extensively practiced on clear, slow-moving streams, for highly educated brown trout, the fish we call also the German trout. Rather recently it has been taken up to some extent by a few American anglers on streams more or less suited to this style of fishing; but, by and large, dry-fly fishing

86 FISHING KITS AND EQUIPMENT

is not adapted to American conditions. However, the angler, merely as a matter of angling knowledge, should make himself acquainted with the methods followed by the dry-fly fishermen, and should know something about the subject of dry flies.

Very little has been written in this country about the " how" of dry-fly fishing, and for this reason, and for the further one that all the large tackle dealers now carry a stock of dry flies and the salesman will doubtless try to sell you some, it may be well to describe as briefly as possible, and with no pretense of treating the subject expertly, what the dry fly is and how it should be fished. The dry fly is a floating fly and is to be fished upon the surface of the water, wherein it differs from the ordinary flies, which are without exception "wet" flies, and to be fished more or less submerged.

The dry-fly purist casts only to a rising trout; he does not fish all the water, according to the custom of the wet-fly fisher, but waits until he sees the circle of ripples made by a rising and feeding fish, and then Casts to that particular — very particular, indeed — trout. He works up-stream, casting slightly above the rise, and floating the fly down over the fish.

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