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Flyfishing gets its hooks into the girl about town
To be honest, I'd class myself as more of a socialising and shopping girl than one who messes about on the river. But this was the Four Seasons, the hotel brand that's a byword for stylish luxury, and if it was pitching fishing as the latest activity for the girl about town, maybe it was time I swapped my wedges for waders. This was going to be deluxe fishing: fishing where you don't have to touch the fish, fishing with champagne and sandwiches back at the hotel. Basically, it's having a laugh, standing in the sunshine at a pond in the country and then having a spa treatment. My previous experience with the rod was hardly a success. When I was a child my father took my younger sister and me fishing at Sandy Balls holiday park in the New Forest. We didn't catch anything, so dad had the cunning idea of buying some fish fingers from the site shop and putting them in our nets for mum to cook back at the caravan.
On the fly: Fish chix
Members of the Colorado Women Flyfishers made what is becoming an annual pilgrimage to the Pan, where some seriously dedicated anglers were in the river from morning til night and beyond.
Two guys returning to their vehicle on the upper river at dusk on Saturday night found more than a few women staking out a spot for the anticipated rusty spinner fall. The evening feeding frenzy was memorable on Friday night, club members assured anyone who wasnt there (this angler, for one).
The spinners, pale morning duns that fall dead into the water after laying their eggs at dusk, are apparently delectible to trout. The pockets of calm water along the bank can boil with glutonous fish during a spinner fall. (The mayflies turn a rusty color at this stage hence the name.)
The pattern with sparkle wings was the hot call on Friday night, but Saturdays overcast, rainy weather apparently put a damper on the PMD hatch earlier in the day, and the evening spinner fall as well.
New Insect Website Has Fly Fishermen Abuzz
Fly fishers and science buffs get a detailed peek into the world of aquatic insects on the website www.troutnut.com, which was re-launched in late August. Its close-up photographs have sparked a new way of looking at rivers and the sport of fly fishing. Ithaca, NY (PRWEB) August 30, 2006 -- Internet blogs and message boards are abuzz this week with talk of flies -- fishing flies, and the insects they imitate. A new illustrated encyclopedia of mayflies and their aquatic kin is drawing crowds to www.troutnut.com, which site developer Jason Neuswanger re-launched in late August. Thousands of colorful close-up photographs of trout stream insects are stirring excitement both within and outside the fly fishing community.
Books have covered the site's subject before, but Neuswanger says Troutnut.com is different.
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