troutfin308
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- Jul 12, 2012
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Hello, I'm pretty new to flyfishing and new to the site as well. I've browsed through a lot of the topics and found them to be very helpful and i feel as though i've learned a lot. I started out mainly fishing with what i've come to learn are "junk flies". Mainly dead drifting egg patterns, sucker spawns, san juan worms etc. under an indicator. I've done really well with all the "junk flies" and i eventually moved to nymphs. I've done good with nymphs too but now i want to make the leap to dry flies. I just got some royal wulffs, orange and yellow stimulators, and adams to start out with (not much hatching this time of year and these are supposedly good prospecting flies). Any other patterns I should pick up? Whats the most popular technique for dry flies, down and across, straight upstream etc.? Do you have to mend the line when fishing dries like you do when nymph fishing? I went out today and when i tried mending the fly would get sucked under and then it wouldn't float anymore. I picked up some floatant after i was done fishing and i was wondering if there is a certain way to apply it to make sure the fly still floats correctly on the water? Thanks a lot for any input and sorry for the newbie questions, just want to get the basics covered.
-Brady
-Brady