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    The Adams is a traditional dry fly primarily used for trout. It is considered a general imitation of an adult mayfly, flying caddis or midge. It was designed...
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  • Dry fly fishing is an angling technique in which the lure is an artificial fly which floats on the surface of the water and does not sink below it. Developed...
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    the Adams dry fly (without tying instructions) or the Clouser Deep Minnow (with tying instructions). Based on the fly pattern, a knowledgeable fly tyer...
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    (0.39 and 1.97 in). The dry fly is a floating fly which does not pierce the water surface significantly; other kinds of fly, whether floating or sinking...
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    flies are generally considered freshwater flies. Dry flies The Adams – A typical dry fly Orange Stimulator – A caddisfly, grasshopper, or stonefly imitation...
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    The Humpy fly is a popular and effective dry fly used by fly anglers for trout in fast-water conditions. In The Professionals’ Favorite Flies (1993) Lefty...
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    series of dry flies evolved from a dry fly style conceived by angler Lee Wulff in the 1930s. In 1930, Lee Wulff designed three innovative dry flies to...
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    The Stimulator is a dry fly popularized by angler, fly tyer and author Randall Kaufmann to imitate large adult stoneflies. The Stimulator pattern is a...
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  • Massa and hand him de plate; Pass down de bottle when he git dry, And bresh away de blue tail fly.  Jim crack corn I don't care,  Jim crack corn I don't care...
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    artificial fly patterns for fly fishing for trout and other species in North America but is less commonly used in Great Britain. Along with the adams dry fly they...
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    Royal Coachman (category Dry fly patterns)
    artificial fly that has been tied as a wet fly, dry fly and streamer pattern. Today, the Royal Coachman and its variations are tied mostly as dry flies and...
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    Dry-Fly Fishing in Theory and Practice (1889) is British author and angler Frederic M. Halford's second and most influential book on dry fly fishing. It...
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    Elk Hair Caddis (category Dry fly patterns)
    The Elk Hair Caddis is a dry fly commonly used for trout fishing. The Elk Hair Caddis was created by Pennsylvania fly tyer Al Troth in 1957. He is considered...
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    Royal Wulff (category Dry fly patterns)
    is a popular artificial fly used for dry fly fishing. It is an attractor pattern and a descendant of both the Royal Coachman fly and the Wulff style of...
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  • Fly fishing tackle comprises the fishing tackle or equipment typically used by fly anglers. Fly fishing tackle includes: Artificial flies - ultralight...
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    Western-style fly fishing, the two techniques developed independently of each other, with tenkara being purely Japanese in origin. In addition, fly fishing...
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    Terrestrial flies (category Dry fly patterns)
    Revolutionary Book on Dry-Fly Fishing with Aquatic and Terrestrial Artificials (1950). In the early centuries of fly fishing, fly anglers certainly attempted...
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    Bunyan Bug (category Dry fly patterns)
    the age of five, and by twelve I was using dry flies. In 1921 I came to western Montana and found dry fly fishing for trout, the joy unsurpassed. I also...
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    Dragonfly (redirect from Dragon fly)
    rest. By contrast, damselflies (suborder Zygoptera) have slender bodies and fly more weakly; most species fold their wings over the abdomen when stationary...
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    Red Tag is an artificial fly originally designed as a dry fly for grayling and trout in the north country of England. The fly pattern, when introduced...
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  • Fly Fishing: Memories of Angling Days, also published as Fly Fishing by J. R. Hartley, is a fishing book by British angling author Michael Russell under...
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    challenge of fly fishing for Atlantic salmon. On trout, he was the first writer of importance on the dry-fly who really knew what the wet-fly meant. Grey...
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    Amadou (category Fly fishing)
    Amadou has great water-absorbing abilities. It is used in fly fishing for drying out dry flies that have become wet. Another use is for forming a felt-like...
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    2014-11-15. Grant, George (Spring 1982). "Don Martinez-Western Dry Fly Master" (PDF). American Fly Fisher. 9 (2): 9–14. Archived from the original (PDF) on...
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    (1914). The Dry Fly and Fast Water. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. The Dry Fly and Fast Water is one of the classic works on American fly fishing. In...
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    Waders (footwear) (category Fly fishing)
    leaktight collar or hood fitted to the neck, enabling the wearer to remain dry when standing or walking in deeper water. Waders are available with boots...
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    Dave's Hopper (category Dry fly patterns)
    an artificial fly used for fly fishing, designed to imitate adult grasshoppers and other Orthoptera species. It is considered a dry fly terrestrial pattern...
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    Tenkara fishing Float tube Trout bum Fly waters Bibliography of fly fishing Artificial flies Fly lure Fly tying Adams Amadou Alexandra Clouser Deep Minnow...
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  • Joan Salvato Wulff (born 1926) is a fly fisher. In 1951, she won the national fly-casting distance title, an all-male competition, and was a National...
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  • British lawyer, writer and fly fisherman. He invented modern-day nymph fishing. This caused a controversy with the Chalk stream dry fly doctrine developed by...
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