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Fly Fishing With Worms
October 26, 2007 |
As a child, I always associate worms with fishing. Those long, reddish to pink, wriggling creatures that my playmates and I dug in on soil to retrieve and put on milk cans. And then on to the streams we go. Often, we went home unsuccessfully without a catch. I did not mind, for us it was more of play fly fishing, enjoying only the immensely excitement of seeing our worms securely tied to our strings.
Worms indeed are effective in fly fishing. But to make it perfect, use live and animated worms. How do we assure them to be as lively as possible? By keeping them cooled always, especially if not used. Warm days can be a bad thing for them, so the solution is to keep our worms on cool water.
When wanting to use worms for fly fishing, it’s best that we try to send them down the bottom of the stream or river. Let your worm bounce and touch the water bottom and flow along the current.
While worms can be one of the most natural looking baits around, still make extra effort in presenting the worms at their natural best. When presented naturally, you will be surprised on how prolific your fly fishing afternoon using live baits can become. You can do this be trying to make the worms stretched, looking more alive and animated using gang hooks.
Last but not the least, when using worms, you need to own a handy bait bag that will help you in accessing to your worms faster, especially if a great prospect for a catch comes along. In fly fishing using worms, time is of the essence – and a golden chance for trophy catch might swim along fast and just pass you by, all because you where slow with your worm bait.
