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Do People Use Real Flies To Go Fly Fishing?

Posted by admin on Friday, December 11th, 2009

Filed in Fly Fishing Flies | 12 responses so far

12 Responses to “Do People Use Real Flies To Go Fly Fishing?”

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   Emma Hon 11 Dec 2009 at 8:34 am 1

   Fly fishermen create their own (or buy) artificial flies because they are far more hardy and longer lasting than a real insect would be. In addition, for many of the fishermen, the real sport is in catching a fish on a fly which they themselves created from scratch. Flies can be made from any number of artificial, natural or synthetic materials and in many instances, do not even resemble an actual insect, fish, or animal. In addition, the artificial flies can be kept for generations with little or no maintenance whereas the real insects would be much harder to care for and maintain in usable condition. Also, the purist fly-fisherman would be totally revolted by the thought of actually using a living insect as bait. You would have as much luck trying to talk them into using worms. ;o)

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   Dan Bon 11 Dec 2009 at 8:48 am 2

   Strictly artificial flies!
   Although i have seen live flies used, in a method of “dapping” this can be done with either artificials or live “daddies”(daddy long legs aka crane fly, also used is the mayfly) ive seen this ancient practice used a few times in Irish Loughs, for wild brown trout. the wind is used to cast the live flies, via the dapping floss into the water, for a perfect natural presentation.
   However ive never seen thats done any where else in the world, so to answer your question 99.9% of fly fishing is using artificial fly.
   Examples of artificial flies.http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templa…

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   AIRFLOWon 11 Dec 2009 at 9:21 am 3

   i would say no because the colors of a real fly may look dull or like a tree that is creating shade but a fake fly is colorful and attracts the fish and be like oh yum a colorful thing so yer might be abit confusing plz put me as best answer

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   Spare some shoes bush??on 11 Dec 2009 at 9:32 am 4

   you can use real ones but they tend to be fake

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   Brandon Con 11 Dec 2009 at 9:41 am 5

   Artificial

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   Brad Lon 11 Dec 2009 at 10:37 am 6

   I guess you could use either but I think its usually fake

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   guitarguon 11 Dec 2009 at 11:17 am 7

   Fake mimics the real thing. Real won’t last long but will work in a survival situation. Most people use fake.

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   funintheon 11 Dec 2009 at 12:01 pm 8

   fake

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   venuson 11 Dec 2009 at 12:29 pm 9

   How old are you?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

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    Eric Hon 11 Dec 2009 at 1:12 pm 10

    You’re kidding, right?

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    The Wormiston 11 Dec 2009 at 2:09 pm 11

    fake, a real fly would be ripped of while casting

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    Tjon 11 Dec 2009 at 2:39 pm 12

    fake flies

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