wet-fly

But the old style of wet-fly fishing will often catch trout when floating patterns fail.

10 Tactics for Catching More Trout on Flies 2006

When the hatch slowed down a little, they preferred a size 14 nymph swung down and across the current wet-fly–style.

Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008

When the hatch slowed down a little, they preferred a size 14 nymph swung down and across the current wet-fly–style.

Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008

When the hatch slowed down a little, they preferred a size 14 nymph swung down and across the current wet-fly–style.

Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008

When the hatch slowed down a little, they preferred a size 14 nymph swung down and across the current wet-fly–style.

Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008

With a moderate-action rod and double-taper line, it gives surprising range, and it's perfect for wet-fly fishing, where false casting can dry the fly and inhibit sinking.

10 Tactics for Catching More Trout on Flies 2006

The traditional wet-fly style that would have been entirely recognizable 100 years ago is still effective: Start with an across and slightly downstream cast, followed by an upstream mend.

When Nothing's Rising 2005

This gives the fly a vertical action that some say is even more realistic than the horizontal wet-fly swing.

When Nothing's Rising 2005

The whipper of the mountain streams, or the wet-fly practitioner who fishes a river where the trout are not particular in their tastes, is in the way of exercise the most fortunate of all.

Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior

But undoubtedly to get the full pleasure out of sea-trout-fishing a single-handed rod of 10 ft. to 12 ft. with reasonably fine gut and small flies should be used, and the way of using it is much the same as in wet-fly fishing for brown trout, which will be treated later.

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