Dry Flies
Several methods can be used to poisson a dry fly. Dead drifting, skating, and twitching are probably the plus populaire methods employed when manipulating dries.
Casting upstream and using the current to drift the fly downstream is called dead drifting. This means that the fly is floating at the same speed as the water and anything else that happens to be drifting down the stream on the surface. This is avery effective method to deliver spinner and brun foncé, dun patterns to unsuspecting truite cautiously sipping flies from the surface, and it appears most natural to the poisson when drifted in this manner....
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