My fly fishing icons were Ray Bergman (TROUT), Art Flick (the Streamside Guide), Lee Wulff (everything), Fran Betters (ADK streams) and a local chap named Marshall who grew up in Northern England's Yorkshire Dales and taught we colonists the subtleties of a sparse, imitative, soft hackle wet fly and the nymph, emerger, dun and spinner stages of the Henrickson on Ontario creeks and how to read the water and be in the right place at the right time.....he called it streamcraft.
If you read your the old fly fishing books most of the flies Ray, Lee, Art and Fran tied were dry flies. Marshall tied wisps of feather, silk, mouse fur on expensive English wet fly hooks...the flies names were Poult Bloa's and the like.
I remember when a 14" trout was a big stream trout and a trout caught on a dry fly was worth more than one caught with a weighted fly.
I guess they were all oldtimers long forgotten because today I see so called experts on TV using bobbers, splitshot and beadheads (JUNK) fishing for corpulent stocked trout. Hardly anyone talks about hatches which I find odd because most of the biggest resident trout I caught from flowing water in my life were caught during a hatch.
But I have also caught plenty of big trout blind fishing.
On streams like the West Canada and Ausable I see a lot of junk fisherman. Conditions could be perfect for a blind fished dry but there they stand in the same pocket and drift over and over and everytime they lift the junk from the water you hear SHLOOOP!! I can see every trout scurrying for cover.
Frankly I blame Orvis and their little...."Trout down deep"...nymph advertisements.
On the TV and I see stillwater experts using a slip bobber and weighted fly any novice could tie...something you'd use for panfish or a technique Al Lindner would use for finicky walleyes....less the fly rod and fly. They use a $300 Islander reel and $500 rod, $300 in assorted spools and lines...but they duck and fling the whole setup awkwardly and I can't help but think a $50 Walmart spinning outfit and Berkley Powerbait would be more graceful and appropriate and I ask myself is it fly fishing?
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If you read your the old fly fishing books most of the flies Ray, Lee, Art and Fran tied were dry flies. Marshall tied wisps of feather, silk, mouse fur on expensive English wet fly hooks...the flies names were Poult Bloa's and the like.
I remember when a 14" trout was a big stream trout and a trout caught on a dry fly was worth more than one caught with a weighted fly.
I guess they were all oldtimers long forgotten because today I see so called experts on TV using bobbers, splitshot and beadheads (JUNK) fishing for corpulent stocked trout. Hardly anyone talks about hatches which I find odd because most of the biggest resident trout I caught from flowing water in my life were caught during a hatch.
But I have also caught plenty of big trout blind fishing.
On streams like the West Canada and Ausable I see a lot of junk fisherman. Conditions could be perfect for a blind fished dry but there they stand in the same pocket and drift over and over and everytime they lift the junk from the water you hear SHLOOOP!! I can see every trout scurrying for cover.
Frankly I blame Orvis and their little...."Trout down deep"...nymph advertisements.
On the TV and I see stillwater experts using a slip bobber and weighted fly any novice could tie...something you'd use for panfish or a technique Al Lindner would use for finicky walleyes....less the fly rod and fly. They use a $300 Islander reel and $500 rod, $300 in assorted spools and lines...but they duck and fling the whole setup awkwardly and I can't help but think a $50 Walmart spinning outfit and Berkley Powerbait would be more graceful and appropriate and I ask myself is it fly fishing?
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