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Should you find no drakes or upwing insects floating on the surface and that a greater number of duns or lapwing insects are on the wing, you can fish dry with a dun fly like the natural insect you see, or fish the duns wet with two or more flies, till later on when you see drakes floating, then fish with dry fly imitations.
Source: wiktionary
The four of us — Tom Poole, Clint Lere, Peter and I — would try various upwing dry flies, including the Flame Thrower, and count and measure all of the trout caught throughout the evening.
Source: wiktionary
Size and color may be changed to replicate any hatch, and the wing position simulates both upwing and downwing spinners.
Source: wiktionary
This method involves the use of a radar transponder sited (at any rate for the purpose of this illustration) at a known distance upwing from the landing threshold — say 4,000 yards — and complementary airborne equipment capable of measuring to an accuracy of 1/10 n. ml.
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