The Way Of A Bass Fisherman With a Fly Rod And The Way Of A Bass With A Fly.

Older fly fishing classics contain a treasure house of information for the noob fly fisher and the experienced angler.

The following is an excerpt from Practical Fly Fishing, by Larry St John ( 1920 ). Get more about fishing for halibut.

The ideal way to fish a bass stream, if its depth and bottom will permit, is to wade.

Actually then, wading the stream is the artist's way of fishing for Micropterus.

This isn't to be marvelled at when you factor in that fly fishing for bass is, compared to trouting, in its first tooth stage. Is it completely due to certain local quirks of fish, water or conditions that fly fishing for bass is practiced so successfully on such widely separated waters as, to say some : the higher Mississippi and Illinois brooks in the Middle West ; the Susquehanna, Potomac and Delaware in the East ; this and St

apart from its beauty and charm wading a stream makes for success.

Remember that when dry-fly fishing first made its appearance here in America from Britain it came without instructions.

It's these older classics that represent the heart and soul of fly fishing ; its puzzle, its attract.

Inside these two excerpts ( taken from George LaBranche's, Dry Fly and Fast Water ) there are nearly twenty fishing tips ; at least ten in each paragraph.

See if you are you able to spot them.

The ideal fly fishing day is a dark, overcast one, just before a rain, or better still, when it simply recommends or threatens to shower and does not with enough breeze to ruffle the outside of the water. However, many of us fish the day thru and perhaps it does not add much to the heft of our creels but it adds lightness to our hearts and uplift to our spirits and there's always the expectation of the luck the evening fishing is going to bring us - unless, perchance, it is the final day and we must give up badly timed to catch the 5:15 for home.