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FISHING TWO FLIES AT ONCE WILL INCREASE CHANCES; IF THE DRY FLY IS FLOATING DRAG-FREE, THEN THE WET FLY BENEATH IS DRIFTING NATURALLY.(SERIES: Fishing Guide 2002)(Special section)

Byline: J. Michael Kelly Staff writer You might not double your catch, but a well-known Pennsylvania angler promises you'll hook more trout this season if you learn to fish two flies at once. Charles Meck, the author of Patterns, Hatches, Tactics and Trout and Pennsylvania Trout Streams and their

Publication: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)

Dry fly buzzes back in the fray.(News)

In the past decade the dry fly has made a dramatic gain in popu-larity. Time was when few anglers would dream of using a dry fly as it was considered the prerogative of the crachach (posh people). Now, most anglers will give it a go if they see a fish taking a fly off the surface. However, it is

Publication: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)

RIVERS CLEAR FOR PRIME DRY-FLY FISHING.(Sports)(Column)

Byline: Ed Dentry Dry-fly season has arrived. It's what the fly rod was made for: clear rivers, flies that float, trout rising and graceful casts unencumbered by clunky weights. With few exceptions, Colorado's rivers are striking prime time on schedule. That's quite a relief after last year's

Publication: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)

dry fly

dry fly • n. an artificial fishing fly that is made to float lightly on the water. • v. ( dry-fly ) fish using a dry fly.

Publication: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English

TROUT BUMS -- Dry-fly nobbery comes and goes

For years after I started fly-fishing, I always fished dry. I mean, I fished on top, not that I wasn't drinking. (I wasn't, but that's not what I meant.) It wasn't that I was a dry-fly snob; back then, if I wanted to fish deep, I just got out my spinning outfit and used it. I put away my spinning

Publication: Yakima Herald-Republic

Plying the deceptive art of the dry fly

A reader writes to say his son caught his first-ever trout on a dry fly last week. He was fishing Lake Moeraki and gave up his chuck- and- chance methods to try the fly. The note brought back many memories. I think every angler recalls the first fish they ever caught on a dry fly, and rightly so.

Publication: The Press

EXPERT ANGLER'S DRY FLIES

"The Masters on the Dry Fly," a book edited by J. Michael Migel, has chapters by fly-tying and fishing experts from the past, though not the distant past. The book published in 1977. The ISBN number is 0-397-011881 (hardback). Here is a list of favorite dry flies from the book's authors. These

Publication: Sunday News Lancaster, PA