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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.
Men enjoy bonding by being alone together
One of the chief reasons we guys like to go fishing together is that it gives us a chance for some real companionship and bonding. Case in point: "Hey, Phil, you still up for fishing today?" "You bet. I've got all the stuff out in the truck," he says enthusiastically. "Since I'm getting off earlier than you, how about if we drive separately and just meet under the Mehama Bridge and decide where to go?" "OK, see you there," Phil responds. So I get to the spot, rig up, and just as I'm getting ready to make the first cast, he drives up and parks. "This looks pretty good," I said, looking at the glassy green pool in front of me. "But with your style of casting with the fly rod, the top part of the pool should be good. "I've seen a lot of fish come out of there." "Yell if you get something, and I'll come back and help you land him," Phil says as he heads upriver.
My other life - Robert Croft
I'm basically a boy from the country, from Hendy in West Wales. It's something I started doing in those long school holidays in the summer. My grandfather fished, my father fished and it just gets handed down like playing rugby in Wales is handed down from generation to generation. What was your first fish?
Like a cricketer I started with a net. My parents took me down to the local river and I caught a trout. I didn't know at the time that they had taken out it of the freezer earlier. But I didn't care I was, er, hooked after that. What sort of fishing do you specialise in?
Although I do some sea fishing I mainly fly fish. A friend of mine owns a stretch on the River Tawe and that's where you will see me going after salmon and sea trout. What has been your biggest catch?
My biggest fish to date was a beautiful 15lb salmon I landed last September at a stretch of river in Capel Dewi in Carmarthen - one of the most prolific sea trout rivers in the UK.
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