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Winter Egg Patterns
Fly
Fishing Adventures
My
Grandfather's Water
APRIL 20, 2006
Early Season Nymphs
by Matt Chapple
Fishing
to rising trout is one of the most rewarding experiences in fly-fishing. You
know the fish are there revealed by the ring as the surface of the water is
broken. The challenge then becomes matching something in your fly box to what
the trout are taking. On occasion there is a hatch, insects in flight all around
the water, but no fish rising. Blind casting dry flies is an option but often
times the trout are feeding subsurface invisible to the angler. In the dead
of winter, early in the season, or on a day when the insect activity is in
a lull, fly fishers have "go to" patterns for subsurface fishing.
Here are a few old ones but good ones to try...
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FEBRUARY 2, 2006
Regulations and Outlook Forum: There seems to have been some confusion on the Outlook Forum section of the site. I want to clarify regulations, use of the Outlook Forum and make some suggestions.
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