| Although most flies represent water insects, a | | | | Macedonian people. |
| terrestrial fly is made to imitate a land insect that | | | | A nymph is the stage between an egg and the |
| has fallen into the water. The two most common | | | | adult in the life cycle of an insect. In fly fishing, |
| terrestrials that are imitated for fly fishing are the | | | | flies that resemble nymphs are growing popularity. |
| ant and the grasshopper. | | | | The nymph fly is just below the surface of the |
| Although there are hundreds of types of flies | | | | water. When a fish bulges the water without |
| used for fly fishing, most of them fall into five | | | | breaking the surface, he is nymphing. This means |
| specific categories, or types. These types are | | | | that the fish is eating the natural nymphs just as |
| dry flies, wet flies, nymphs, streamers and buck | | | | they are emerging from their shell. This is what a |
| tails, and terrestrials. The main purpose of the fly | | | | nymph fly imitates. |
| is to imitate an insect that the fish wants to eat. | | | | Streamers and buck tail flies do not imitate any |
| A dry fly imitates a natural insect that is floating | | | | part of the insect's life cycle. These types of fly |
| on the top of the water. Fish are very sensitive | | | | fishing flies are much larger and represent small |
| to any motion of their water and how currents | | | | bait fish such as sculpin minnows. The main |
| move the insects they want for food. In fly | | | | difference between theses two types of flies is |
| fishing, if a dry fly is moving even slightly against | | | | that streamers are tied with feathers, and |
| the current, the fish will have nothing to do with it. | | | | bucktails are tied completely with hair. Fly fishing |
| The fly may look like something the fish | | | | that uses these two types of flies generally |
| recognizes but it is not acting the same an insect | | | | requires more rod and line manipulation. The |
| would. The fish recognizes it as something foreign | | | | movements are supposed to duplicate the |
| in the water and leaves it alone. | | | | motions of the little fish. |
| In fly fishing, a wet fly is imitating a drowned, or | | | | Besides these basic five categories of flies, there |
| drowning, natural insect and is fished below the | | | | are many other kinds of flies that are used for |
| water surface. No one is sure if the wet fly is | | | | fly fishing. Some of them are a combination of |
| seen as a drowning adult insect or a nymph from | | | | one or more of the basic categories and some do |
| the perspective of the fish. Most fly fishermen | | | | not fit into any group. The most important thing |
| today seem to believe that it is seen as a nymph. | | | | to remember is that it doesn't matter how the fly |
| Because of this less and less wet flies are being | | | | looks to you, the fisherman. It matters how the |
| sold. Wet fly fishing is the oldest form of fly | | | | fly looks to the fish. |
| fishing. It dates back to descriptions of the early | | | | |