For some weird reason, the last few generations of anglers haven't been exposed to this classic fly fishing info that assisted in shaping Yankee dry-fly fishing. But, for some reason, it is the story-telling aspects, only found in the older classics, that may get your blood racing and calls you to the closest stream or stream.
It's these older classics that represent the really heart and soul of fly fishing ; its puzzle, its attract.
Feel how smooth and flowing they are when being told as a story, vs some stuffy, uninteresting tutorial or manual.
Inside these 2 excerpts ( taken from George LaBranche's, Dry Fly and Fast Water ) there are virtually twenty fishing tips ; at least 10 in each paragraph.
See if you can you spot them. Instead the wet fly swing is an example of the oldest fly fishing methodologies. It is employed for all sorts of fish, where ever there's a current. The wet fly swing is meant to get the fly down deep quickly and swing it out front of the required fish. The wet fly swing is most frequently used with streamers, like the Woolly Bugger or Muddler Minnow and infrequently wet flies, like soft hackles or sprites. It is employed whenever the fly fisher wants his show to seem to be swimming openly in the present. Most fly fishing anglers will use the wet fly swing with a sinking tip line. The weight will rely on the species of fish and the dimensions of the water. The horizontal cast should be used if at all possible.
Reading the early American fly fishing classics is an absolute must for all anglers who are obsessed about learning as much as they can about the planet's oldest out of doors sport.
Don't forget, it is from these now classic books that America learned the way to fly fish using the dry-fly. Surely, these books haven't lost the capacity to continue to teach more generations the art and craft of fly fishing.
To view a sampling of the content of older, classic books on fly fishing, visit the "Long Lost Fly Fishing Techniques Vault" halibut .
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