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