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