Pro Tips: Don’t Swing that Wet Fly


Wet flies, such as this Sparkle Soft Hackle, are more versatile than you may think.
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These days, classic wet flies are probably the most underused patterns in the average American fly fisher’s box. Trailing far behind nymphs, dry flies, and streamers in popularity, wet flies have the reputation of being for older guys or. . .

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Video: How to Tie the Sulphur Soft Hackle Wet Fly


This pattern can be fished as a dry/cripple on the surface, dead drifted as nymph or swung and lifted like a wet fly.

Many Eastern anglers are probably encountering good hatches of sulphurs (Ephemerella dorothea dorothea) on their locals waters, while Westerners still have to wait a few weeks for their subspecies (Ephemerella dorothea infrequens) to start popping. Earlier, we. . .

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Tuesday Tip: The Un-Swung Wet Fly


Wet flies, such as this Sparkle Soft Hackle, are more versatile than you may think.
Photo via orvis.com

These days, classic wet flies are probably the most underused patterns in the average American fly fisher’s box. Trailing far behind nymphs, dry flies, and streamers in popularity, wet flies have the reputation of being for older guys or those not willing to sling two tungsten-beadheads and a Thingamabobber. But for hundreds, if not. . .

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