Whats The Difference From Wet And Dry Flies When Fly Fishing?
Posted by admin on Saturday, November 28th, 2009
this is kind of a stupid question but what is the difference in dry and wet flies for fly fishing i just started.
Filed in Fly Fishing Flies | 6 responses so far
SageFlyon 28 Nov 2009 at 3:44 pm 1Dry flies stay afloat sometimes with the help of a floatant that you rub on them.
And wet fly the traditional ones are looking like dry flies but they are made to be fished just under the film of the water usually unweighted.
And other flies like nymphs and other ones called streamers are fished close to bottom and stripped in or just drifted through the current and some of the ones like nymphs and wolly worms are weighted to sink close to bottom.
malyseton 28 Nov 2009 at 4:00 pm 2Dry flies float on top of the water and represent insects in the final stage of life when they are flying around and laying eggs on or around the water.
Wet flies can indicate the ealier stages of the flies, like the larva. When people say wet flies they can mean a couple different things, they can mean nymphs (early bug stage) or emergers (rising bug from bottom) or even streamers (large flies being pulled through current to represent smaller fish or leeches or crawfish or anything that swims underwater.)
AKFSHRMNon 28 Nov 2009 at 4:07 pm 3dry flys float they r usually bugs and stuff but wet flies r usually minnows and aquatic instects that sink about 2 inches below the water
Matayeoson 28 Nov 2009 at 5:02 pm 4Dry flies float on the top of the water whereas wet flies go under the water.
PDon 28 Nov 2009 at 5:55 pm 5wet flies sink, dry flies float, this isn’t a stupid question you just didn’t know or forgot, no biggy
Colorado Trout Boyon 28 Nov 2009 at 6:25 pm 6yea like pd said…they do what there names say…now yes your drys may sink but thats because you need to put something like gink on them to keep them a float even through rough water