NYMPHS AS ATTRACTORS - Eye of the guide - May 31, 2010

NYMPHS AS ATTRACTORS

As I was doing the research for this text I came across an interesting quote from George Washington Bethune, who served as the Editor for the first American edition of Isaac Walton's Compleat Angler published in 1847. The quote is interesting as Bethune has a thoroughly modern view of what many anglers of today still fail to recognize.

"That a lot of things work a lot of the time, and that some may work more than others, but none seem to work all the time".

It doesn't work all of the time, but I've had a fair amount of success fishing this nymph (size 12/14) in tandem with a smaller, imitative nymph (16/18/20) on point.

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John,

Nice fly; I've had luck with that as well as a number of your other flies. Funny to see you listed as a "Junior Member" on this board; I'm hoping that changes in a hurry.

Regards,
Scott