Fly of the Week: Hendrickson Light Wet

Fly of the Week: Hendrickson Light Wet

If you share my fascination with the history of fly fishing, your research will eventually lead you to wet flies and the traditional techniques used to fish them. By definition, wet flies are designed to sink. The practice of fishing sunken flies crafted with wool bodies and wings of various feathers can be found in texts dating back as far as A.D. 200. Most famously, The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton, published in 1653, describes the art of c…