Prologue to "Designing Dry Flies for Streams and Rivers"

By Brian Smith

This preface is the opener and forward in a series of articles for Fly Lines magazine by the author about designing dry flies for freshwater trout and/or graying fly-fishing in rivers and streams.  

Good fly pattern designs are the results of many years of insect observation, research of current and original fly replicas and their materials, experimentation with your own ideas, and then testing them for their usefulness on the water in fishing situations.