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Two flies are much better than one
Anglers use two flies to effectively reduce the time in finding out what insect and what stage of it that the trout are feeding upon. The nymphal or larval stage of an insect is typically the stage that fish feed on the majority of time.
As a result, many anglers fish a large dry fly as an indicator. This fly takes the place of the yarn or hard bubble type of indicators. From this fly a nymph is suspended with a length of leader material. Some anglers even will add a split shot to get the second fly deeper. Doing this requires a very large and highly buoyant dry fly. Too much weight will obviously sink the indicator fly.
Anglers attach the second fly by tying the leader of the second fly off of a tag end of a line splice, this is called a dropper, or by directly tying to the bend of the hook on the indicator fly.
Trout blamed for too much
WITH the new trout fishing season upon us, I think that my recent discovery is timely. Among some old papers which were stacked in a box under my house, I found a report concerning the native spotted tree frog, Litorea spenceri, which was threatened with extinction some time before 1990, although the report I have is dated 1997. The main theme of the report was that these threatened frogs were declining in numbers as a result of being eaten by rainbow trout. To help the dwindling frog numbers there was a scheme afoot, involving the Victorian Government and then Department of Environment, to withdraw or eradicate rainbow trout from streams in the Mt Buffalo National Park in particular, in an effort to halt this alarming decline in frog numbers. Both rainbow trout and brown trout are exotic fish species, being introduced into Australia from the US and England respectively in the late 19th century.
Fly fishing workshop offered
8/30/2006 - Alberto Rey will present Fly Fishing in the Great Lakes at the Adams Art Gallery Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon. All proceeds will benefit the gallery.
Rey is an accomplished fisherman as well as an educator and nationally recognized artist. His articles and artwork have been on the covers and in the pages of Grays Sporting Journal, Art of Angling, Fish and Fly Magazine and Buffalo Spree.
The Fly Fishing in the Great Lakes is based on Reys research, background and experience. He is an Orvis Endorsed Fly Fishing Guide and the founder and director of SAREP Youth Fly Fishing Program.
Weather permitting, a portion of the presentation may be held in Washington Park.
The cost for the workshop is $30 for adults and $20 for children.
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