The Dry Fly: New Angles
by Gary LaFontaine
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Author: Gary LaFontaineEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-01-01
ISBN: 1585744387
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Lyons Press
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Book Review: A new perspective and understanding of fly fishing
Summary: 5 Stars
Gary LaFontaine opened my eyes to the "mind" and behavior of the trout be the fly in question a dry or nymph.
Research based and statistically validated research on trout behavior backed up by fascinating anecdotes of what the LaFontaine scuba diving observers saw give you confidence that Gary's suggestions can be taken to the stream or river and used with confidence.
To me all fly fishing books have germs of truth and gems of wisdom; none in my experience combine all that and deliver it so entertainingly, richly and actionably as does The Dry Fly; New Angles by Gary LaFontain.
If this book is not in your fly fishing library you have a huge gap in your collection.
Summary of The Dry Fly: New Angles
A brilliant and innovative book by the author of Caddisflies.
The author of Caddisflies and Trout Flies: Proven Patterns presents his vast knowledge about catching trout on dry flies in The Dry Fly: New Angles, an advanced resource for the serious fly-fisher. Combining years of fishing and tying experience with keen observation and lucid prose, LaFontaine organizes his information into several theories about trout behavioral patterns and fishing strategy. He starts with three basic schools of dry fly-fishing: empiricism, generalism, and naturalism. The empiricist relies on remembering which flies worked on certain rivers, regardless of the hatch; the generalist relies on presentation of a few favorite flies, also regardless of the hatch; and the naturalist tries above all to match the hatch with exact imitations. LaFontaine shows why each of these schools is flawed. Basing his ideas on close laboratory study and underwater diving, he argues that a knowledge of primary and secondary strike-triggering characteristics is paramount to catching fish--a school of thought that, in certain conditions, will exaggerate an imitative trait on a fly to attractor-like effect. Beneath all this is the science of when to use imitators and when to use attractors, when to float a fly high on the surface and when to float it low, like an emerger.
If you're tired of reaching for the same flies time after time, despite obviously different river conditions or feeding behavior, read The Dry Fly.
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