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Older fly fishing classics contain a plethora of information for the newbie fly fisher and the experienced angler.

The ideal way to fish a bass stream, if its depth and bottom will permit, is to wade. Actually then, wading the stream is the artist's way of fishing for Micropterus. To paraphrase, if some anglers loudly announce the east wind bloweth when they're bassing with flies it is due, not to the bass but to the angler. Is it completely due to certain local mannerisms of fish, water or conditions that fly fishing for bass is practiced so successfully on such widely separated waters as, to say some : the higher Mississippi and Illinois brooks in the Middle West ; the Susquehanna, Potomac and Delaware in the East ; the present and St Francis in the Ozarks ; the Belgrade Lakes in Maine? I suspect not. Bass fly fishing has long been practiced and studied in these places, therefore the success.

Apart from its beauty and charm wading a stream makes for success.

When trying to find info on how to fly fish, fly fishing tips or fly fishing methodologies, a lot of anglers, or anglers to be,who limit their search to books or material written ithin the previous few years or decades are short-changing themselves.

Yes, they were the true pioneers - and they wrote the 1st books about the creativity and craftsmanship of what it took to successfully fly fish in these Yankee waters.

For some bizarre reason, the last few generations of anglers have not been exposed to this classic fly fishing info that contributed to shaping Yankee dry-fly fishing. Feel how smooth and flowing they are when being told as a tale, vs some stuffy, uninteresting tutorial or manual.

See whether you can you spot them. July is generally a good month on all streams and on the bigger ones this month and Aug frequently produce best of all - and just when the lakes are yielding least. Awfully low water regularly drives the fish into the holes on little streams in the "dog days. Then we are out of luck as the fish usually start to rise well as the giving up hour approaches -'twas ever so as the poets say. But never mind : other days are coming and for that matter if the fish become too challenging one can always "miss" a train and send a telegraph of reason later.

Thunder and lightning tempests are negative for good fishing but a peaceful shower regularly turns the tide in our favor and sets the fish to rising.

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