How to fly fish with a wet fly.

Learn to fish a wet fly and you will never go hungry!

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. There are basically three forms of wet flies, nymphs, wet flies and streamers. All three are below the surface baits that are fished with the current thus opposite of a dry fly.

2. Many experts claim that well over 90% of a trouts diet consist of some form of wet fly. Based on the above statement one could speculate that success should be easy. The operative word was "easy".

3. If you can direct the fly which of course you cannot see below the surface into a trouts feeding lane without making the leader obvious and the movement un-natural then all that is left to do is pick a pattern that resembles the natural food available in the particular stream. Lastly, you need good instincts and feel as trout sipping bugs below the surface will create a much less spectacle of themselves compared to a rainbow breaking water surface to go after a mosquito. A lot of times the hit will feel more like a faint nudge.

Tips & Warnings

• If you are confident that trout are present and you are not getting any hits, change flies. The quicker you get on the fly most closely resembling the local food chain the sooner you'll start hooking up.