WET OR DRY?
Jimmy D. Moore
Halford argued dry and Skues argued wet
and that age-old argument isn't over yet!
Some fish both wet and dry, but never
bother to understand why.
Some fish only wet and some only dry.
Some don't care as long as it's a pretty fly.
"Might as well fish a worm", said the dry fly
man as he shifted his feet in the burning hot sand.
"To catch big browns you must fish wet my friend,"
said the wet fly man as he slowly sipped his Gin.
"I'll catch'em on top", said the dry fly man and
If I try long enough, I know that I can.
"Why waste your time with that pretty little fly,
when you could go deep with something really sly",
countered the wet fly guy.
"But I must see the take", said the dry fly man,
as he slowly cast his dry fly again and again.
"I'll fish my wet while you watch your dry", quipped
the wet fly guy, his fresh hooked brown
rocketing toward the sky!
And the pretty little fly still floats round and round,
while the dry fly guy waits patiently for his big brown.
Alas, be they wet or be they dry, I'll fish them
both till the day I die.
Jimmy D. Moore
Copyright, September 18, 2003
