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My definition of a "fly" is, that it must be made of fur and/or feather and be an imitation of a terrestial "insect".

 

Nymphs are "nymphs".

 

Furry/Feathery large flashy things, are "lures".

 

Things that are mainly metal or plastic are. "spinners/plugs" or "lures".

 

"Wet" sinks.

 

"Dry" floats.

 

If anything falls between these categorisations.......I won,t use it. :D

"I gotta go where its warm, I gotta fly to saint somewhere "

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Cranfield:

My definition of a "fly" is, that it must be made of fur and/or feather and be an imitation of a terrestial "insect".

But most flies we use imitate water born insects with only a few, like Hawthorns, Daddy Long Legs and Moths imitating terrestrials surely?

 

richard

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heres a killer from my box, i call it fathers pride

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None of this "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" crap it just means i have at least two enemies!

 

There is only one opinion i listen to ,its mine and its ALWAYS right even when its wrong

 

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Chesters! What are you doing giving away Gaffer's secret carp bait?

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Quanti Canicula Ille In Fenestra

 

Species caught in 2017 Common Ash, Hawthorn, Hazel, Scots Pine, White Willow.

Species caught in 2016: Alder, Blackthorn, Common Ash, Crab Apple, Left Earlobe, Pedunculate Oak, Rock Whitebeam, Scots Pine, Smooth-leaved Elm, Swan, Wayfaring tree.

Species caught in 2015: Ash, Bird Cherry, Black-Headed Gull, Common Hazel, Common Whitebeam, Elder, Field Maple, Gorse, Puma, Sessile Oak, White Willow.

Species caught in 2014: Big Angry Man's Ear, Blackthorn, Common Ash, Common Whitebeam, Downy Birch, European Beech, European Holly, Hawthorn, Hazel, Scots Pine, Wych Elm.
Species caught in 2013: Beech, Elder, Hawthorn, Oak, Right Earlobe, Scots Pine.

Species caught in 2012: Ash, Aspen, Beech, Big Nasty Stinging Nettle, Birch, Copper Beech, Grey Willow, Holly, Hazel, Oak, Wasp Nest (that was a really bad day), White Poplar.
Species caught in 2011: Blackthorn, Crab Apple, Elder, Fir, Hawthorn, Horse Chestnut, Oak, Passing Dog, Rowan, Sycamore, Willow.
Species caught in 2010: Ash, Beech, Birch, Elder, Elm, Gorse, Mullberry, Oak, Poplar, Rowan, Sloe, Willow, Yew.

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richardw:

 

 

What about when a fly line is not used?  When using a willow wand fresh cut from a pollard Macedonian style?  Or garden cane with leader as per my recommendations for Czech nymphing?  Or fly rod but at close range with no fly line out of the top ring?

Yeh, right - and you could add "dibbling" a fly over a bridge, trailing a fly from a boat, "catapult casting" on heavily bushed brooks and traditional mayfly dapping to your list of exceptions. You could even present a fly on a pole!

 

I suppose the definition goes something like :-

 

"I am fly fishing, you are bending the rules, he is poaching"

 

:P:P:P:P:o

 

 

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World species 471 : UK species 105 : English species 95 .

Certhia's world species - 215

Eclectic "husband and wife combined" world species 501

 

"Nothing matters very much, few things matter at all" - Plato

...only things like fresh bait and cold beer...

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I suppose it boils down to Some people fish, some catch fish and some just drown worms :):P:P

 

Mind you I know areas where the humble worm is known as the GARDEN FLY.

 

It would seem there is almost as many opinions as there are flies. :D

 

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