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2. Adams (dry fly) - Wikipedia

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   The Adams is a traditional dry fly primarily used for trout.It is considered a general imitation of an adult mayfly, flying caddis or midge.It was designed by Leonard Halladay from Mayfield, Michigan in 1922, at the request of his friend Charles Adams. [2]

3. Terrestrial flies - Wikipedia

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   Terrestrial flies are a broad group of artificial flies used by fly anglers to imitate terrestrial insects that fall prey to fish in rivers, streams and lakes. Most typical are patterns imitating grasshoppers , crickets , ants , beetles , leaf hoppers , cicadas and moths .

4. Dry fly fishing - Wikipedia

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   Fly fishing for trout can be done using various methods and types of flies. Trout mostly feed near the bed of the stream, where wet flies and especially nymphs are used. They typically only come to the surface to feed when there is a large bug hatch during which thousands of aquatic insects grow wings and leave the water to mate and lay eggs.

5. Humpy fly - Wikipedia

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   The Humpy fly is a popular and effective dry fly used by fly anglers for trout in fast-water conditions. In The Professionals’ Favorite Flies (1993) Lefty Kreh praises the Humpy as: The Humpy is one of the best flies ever invented for turbulent water where many dry flies are quickly drowned.

6. Artificial fly - Wikipedia

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   Additionally, as the popularity of fly fishing expanded globally to new and exotic target species, new flies and genera of flies came into being. There are many subtypes in some of these categories especially as they apply to trout flies. As well, any given pattern of artificial fly might well fit into multiple categories depending on its ...

7. Alexandra (wet fly) - Wikipedia

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   In very rapid water, free from weeds (the Derbyshire rivers, and Welsh streams, for example,) a third fly may be added to the stretcher and dropper, but, on the whole, little good comes of more than two flies on the cast. In trout water where the fish do not rise well at the usual flies the Alexandra is as much in place as a spun minnow, but it ...