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fflutterffly wrote:Here is my problem. I can't really figure out the difference between the wet fly and a flymph!

Hi, I don't think the fish really understand the definitions....

If you catch, keep on doing it and refining it, if you don't, then try something different until you do.

Andrew.

Ariel,
No problem. A flymph is a wingless wet fly. Wet flies, in general can have wings represented by various materials and were originally tied to represent the adult stage of an aquatic insect. Flymphs are tied without wings and while many feel they represent the transitional stage from nymph to adult, I feel they represent all three stages depending upon how they are fished.

This might help from William Tapply:

http://flyanglersonline.com/features/ad ... /part1.php

Mark

Now I get it. OK. I've been fishing flymphs, not wets. I try to do the flies as I see them in the avatars and on the flymph.com. Interesting article. Thanks. It gets clearer with each submission to my questions.

This is a good question and it's great to see new faces with such an interest in the actual nuances of these flies. The way I see it is...there are wingless wets, and these include a very wide variety of wet flies, without the wings, and representing a lot of different things. They might have a herl body, a wire body, a dubbed body, silk body, tensil, combinations of these or bodies wrapped with plastic grocery bag pieces and they all have a very wide variety of hackles including hair hackles. The thing for me that helps refine the conversation about flymphs is the body dubbing method. It's hard to put any of the other flies in the same camp as those tied with the shaggy, dubbed body using a dubbing loop or something that achieves a similar effect. The movement of the body itself plays a part in the definition of the flies behavior. They all catch fish, and they are all interesting, but when I think of the flymphs, its not so much the hackle wraps, but the body. And then there is a lot of gray area in there and its all interesting.

w