| I love to fly fish, although I do get bored during | | | | perhaps a minnow or a swimming bug or a shrimp |
| the long New England winters. When I was young | | | | or a crawfish or even a lobster. Streamers are |
| and without little children, I'd fly down south | | | | usually retrieved to give them life like motion |
| somewhere, anywhere actually, and continue to | | | | although often they are allowed to swing across a |
| fly fish. Now instead I sit around, tie a few flies | | | | current without retrieval, which also results in a life |
| getting ready for spring, and think about fishing. | | | | like and natural motion. |
| There are three basic types of fishing flies. | | | | The third type of fishing fly is the nymph. A |
| One is a dry fly. It's a fly designed to float on top | | | | nymph resembles the immature aquatic form of |
| of the water and look like an airborne insect that | | | | an insect. Many insects live most of their lives in |
| has alighted or fallen in the water. Dry fly fishing is | | | | the water, flying only briefly to mate and die. |
| exciting: you typically cast upstream and let the | | | | Nymphs are typically cast upstream and dead |
| fly drift as drag free and naturally as possible. | | | | drifted in the current, like a real nymph that has |
| When and if a fish takes it, you see it! Dry fly | | | | gotten dislodged. |
| fishing is primarily a fresh water technique, and | | | | Not all flies neatly fit into these categories. What |
| the classic method of catching trout. | | | | would you call a fly rod popper, or a crab fly, or |
| The second type of fishing fly is the streamer. It | | | | fly designed to match a swimming mouse? Good |
| resembles something swimming in the water, | | | | questions! |