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| Bass on a Fly | The Muskie Top-Water Retrieve |  Tony Sisk photo |
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Fly Fishing Techniques: Trout
When Drag is Desirable
IMPARTING MOVEMENT TO A DRY FLY is one of the most effective and exciting ways to fish dry flies, but it must be done under the right circumstances with special techniques that distinguish movement given to the fly by the fisherman from ordinary drag. Insects on the surface of the water move, no question, but when insects move they do it without creating a V-shaped wake that drag usually creates. When you purposely give movement to a fly, it should look like a skater gliding across the surface rather than a swimmer doing the crawl. If this is done properly, a skated fly will draw trout from six feet away, fish that might not be induced to take any other fly. It's more an active technique that you should use like a streamer fly to provoke strikes than a passive technique where you pitch a fly to a trout's suspected position and wait for him to inhale your fly.
Fly Fishing Techniques: Video
The Hand and the Arm
"THE HAND and the Arm" is from "Joan Wulff's Dynamics of Fly Casting,", in which a recognized master of fly casting instruction demonstrates the elements of great casting: vital hand and arm movements and practice routines for learning almost all kinds of casts.
Excerpt: "Fly casting is the back-and-forth motion of the forearm and hand within the up-and-down motion of the whole arm. The wrist moves from bent down to straight. The forearm comes back in line with the upper arm. And the elbow lifts and lowers, to engage that upper arm action. It's an overall acceleration to a stop."
Fly Fishing Techniques: Saltwater
Targeting Giant Bonefish
ONE OF THE RESULTS of winning big bonefish tournaments is that people are always asking me about the keys to catching giant bonefish. It's easy to understand; big bonefish are so difficult to fool that the frustration can become overwhelming. They are so different in "attitude" from small bonefish that I'd probably suggest you forget what you learned while casting to the schools of hundreds that are typical in parts of the Bahamas and the Caribbean. Legendary south Florida guide Steve Huff once said that if you can catch a big tailing bonefish with a fly rod, you can catch anything. And seeing a big bonefish tail sticking out of the water will make anyone's knees shake. There's no wonder that there's a mystique about these awesome fish.
