Emergers Decoded  Emergers Decoded  Fish "film stars" in this
fashion and get ready to say, "There's another!"    • By: Bob
Wyatt   • Photography by: Carl McNeil  Fish “film stars” in this
fashion and get ready to say, “There’s another!”>   by Bob Wyatt
Emergers Decoded   WHERE YOU ARRIVE AFTER A LIFETIME OF FLY-
FISHING depends to a large extent on how you start out. By the
time I was into my late teens and tying flies that looked like
the ones in the books, I reckoned that a fly riding half-sunk in
the surface was at least as effective as a well-cocked dry fly,
even if I didn’t know why. Over time, that hunch strengthened
into a conviction that a fly in the surface film is far more
deadly than one perched on its tiptoes.  I gained that opinion
by fishing Gerry Avoledo’s “bucktail” in 1958. It was a big,
orange, wool-bodied fly with a deerhair wing and a brown,
collared hackle, and it became our go-to pattern when
Pteronarcys stoneflies were on the water. It had the attributes
of a chunk of raw pork belly,