My plan had been to focus on dry-fly fishing for brookies.

August usually sees the best fishing, with dry-fly action at its peak.

To this day my preferred fishing, is with a dry-fly in a small stream.

The work also played a significant role in the development of dry-fly fishing in America.

Dry-fly fishing is a wonderful discipline to embrace, just to level the playing field.

These became the foundation of all later dry-fly developments.

My sight is very good, especially for long distances, and in dry-fly fishing I never need to use a glass to spot a fish.

July through to October offers you the chance to try out your hand at dry-fly hopper fishing.

A dry-fly lure and a fishing hat dotted the ad.

That would put him on the Rio Grande in the early evening, a good time for dry-fly fishing.

The world's best dry-fly fishing for trophy trout.

Dry-fly fishin's my specialty," he said bitterly, "but no thank you!

It was the consummate "how-to" manual for the dry-fly fisherman.

I've heard dry-fly fishermen whispering nasty things about the fellow who is flailing away with a wet fly.

When the river is clear, between major periods of runoff or storms, it is heaven for dry-fly fishing.

On trout, he was the first writer of importance on the dry-fly who really knew what the wet-fly meant.

The volume begins by spelling out the various pieces of fishing and personal equipment the dry-fly angler should possess.

Dunne published his first book, on dry-fly fishing, in 1924, with a new method of making realistic imitation flies.

Humphrey was a passionate fisherman whose greatest love was dry-fly fishing for trout.

There was, for example, my free-form stain made by dropping an open bottle of dry-fly dressing in a shirt pocket.

Dry-Fly Fishing so good, you won't believe it!

By the early 20th century, the Halford dry-fly doctrine had become cultish and to some extent dogmatic.

It is in dry-fly fishing for trout that the knowledge of aquatic insects is all important to anyone who would master the sport.

After lunch, I began to get the hang of the highly technical nature of dry-fly fishing on the Missouri.

The standard fly-fishing techniques are up-steam nymphing and dry-fly.

One can toss a small dry fly 35 feet with it, Carlson said.

Randolph had taken a salmon the previous day on a dry fly.

It is at this time that they come to surface to feed and may be caught on the dry fly.

I could barely see the dry fly floating on the water in the shadow.

They are used when tying dry flies for fly fishing.

Don't forget to take some tiny dry flies with you April 1.

I cast to them with a dry fly, but they wouldn't bite.

When we reached the stream he tied on a dry fly, an Adams.

None responded and it was Joe's turn to woo them with a dry fly.

Dry fly fishing is done with a floating line.

We'd ridicule a kid right off the creek for fishing a dry fly.

When that happens, switch to an appropriate dry fly and you may get a visible strike.

Since my friend did not have a special snow flurry pattern in his dry fly box, we decided to call it a day.

"Do you want to start with a dry fly or a wet fly?"

The sight of a live insect or even a dry fly makes them nauseous.

I saw the dry fly disappear beneath the surface, but held my rod tip still.

Dry flies are designed to be buoyant, or to float on the surface of the water.

I noted some good-looking water that I will fish with a dry fly in the summer.

It is at this magic moment that trout will rise and take a correctly presented dry fly.

If that fails, the dry fly is used.

You've got to place them just as carefully as a dry fly.'

I have found, for example, that my supply of little dry flies, No. 22 and smaller, is sadly depleted.

Livy Parsons sharply snatched his dry fly off the water.

I raised three or four fish on both wet and dry flies, but none were pricked by the hook.

One of his favorite early season dry flies is the pheasant tail midge.