| When looking for information on how to fly | | | | |
| fish, fly fishing tips or fly fishing | | | | See if you can you spot them. |
| techniques, many anglers, or anglers to | | | | |
| be,who limit their search to books or | | | | ********************************** |
| material written ithin the last few years or | | | | |
| decades are short-changing themselves. | | | | Exercising patience, he may walk slowly and |
| | | | quietly into the water at the tail of the |
| Fact is, many anglers continue to miss out on | | | | stretch and as closely as possible to the |
| great fly fishing information by not reaching | | | | bank the fish are under. Having attained the |
| back into the rich history of the sport and | | | | desired position, he should remain there long |
| seeking the advice and wisdom of true fly | | | | enough to allow all commotion made by his |
| fishing pioneers. | | | | entry to cease, during which time no motion |
| | | | of the rod should be made, because the sight |
| Now when I say pioneers, I'm talking about | | | | of any moving object will send the now alert |
| the guys who didn'thave anyone to learn from | | | | trout scurrying, while the ripples will make |
| - the groundbreakers. | | | | him uneasy for a short time only. The |
| | | | horizontal cast should be used if possible. |
| Remember that when dry-fly fishing first made | | | | The fly should be floated down about a foot |
| its appearance here in America from England | | | | from the bank, and it should not be retrieved |
| it came without instructions. | | | | until it has traveled more than half the |
| | | | distance between the angler and the spot |
| That's when anglers such as Emlyn Gill, | | | | where it alighted.... |
| George La Branche, Theodore Gordon and Samuel | | | | |
| Camp, just to name a few, came up with their | | | | When satisfied that no trout are within the |
| own set of instructions for dry-fly fishing. | | | | section covered by the fly, the angler should |
| | | | lengthen his line and fish the fly a few feet |
| Yes, they were the true pioneers - and they | | | | above-always permitting the fly to travel |
| wrote the first books about the artistry and | | | | over the water already fished. He should |
| craftsmanship of what it took to successfully | | | | continue this until the maximum line that can |
| fly fish in these American waters. | | | | be handled neatly without moving from the |
| | | | original position is being cast. When the |
| For some strange reason, the last few | | | | line becomes unwieldy (in this method and |
| generations of anglers have not been exposed | | | | position it is courting failure to attempt |
| to this classic fly fishing information that | | | | anything over thirty-five to forty feet, even |
| helped shape American dry-fly fishing. | | | | if one is expert) an advance may be made a |
| | | | few yards up-stream as closely to the bank as |
| True, there are many fine fly fishing books | | | | the depth of the water and free casting space |
| being published today. But, for some reason, | | | | will permit. As it is quite possible-and |
| it's the story-telling aspects, only found in | | | | likely, too-that a trout has been under the |
| the older classics, that can get your blood | | | | fly all the while, but was not interested in |
| racing and beckons you to the nearest stream | | | | it, the angler's advance will drive him |
| or river. | | | | ahead, and indications of this should be |
| | | | sharply looked for. The discovery of the fish |
| It's these older classics that represent the | | | | will save much valuable time, for in that |
| very heart and soul of fly fishing; its | | | | case the immediate stretch may be abandoned, |
| mystery, its allure. | | | | because any fish above the one seen will have |
| | | | certainly taken alarm at the actions of his ! |
| You've felt it, haven't you? | | | | fellow and will have lost all desire to feed |
| | | | for some time. |
| Fly fishing classics every angler should have | | | | |
| as part of their library include a wide array | | | | ********************************** |
| of books written by fly fishers for fly | | | | |
| fishers and span anywhere between the early | | | | How did you do? And, that's just within 2 |
| to mid 1900's. | | | | paragraphs! Imagine the number of tips you'll |
| | | | find throughout an entire book! |
| Here is a glimpse of the quality and quantity | | | | |
| of fly fishing instructions you can find in | | | | Reading the early American fly fishing |
| any one of these classics. Feel how smooth | | | | classics is a must for all anglers who are |
| and flowing they are when being told as a | | | | passionate about learning as much as they can |
| story, as opposed to some stuffy, boring | | | | about the world's oldest outdoor sport. |
| tutorial or manual. | | | | |
| | | | Remember, it is from these now classic books |
| Within these two excerpts (taken from George | | | | that America learned how to fly fish using |
| LaBranche's, Dry Fly and Fast Water) there | | | | the dry-fly. Surely, these books haven't lost |
| are no less than 20 fishing tips; at least 10 | | | | the capacity to continue to teach more |
| in each paragraph! | | | | generations the art and craft of fly fishing. |