This story will tell you a little bit about the history and the different patterns of Wet flies.
From Greece date the first written tradition that the Macedonians have tied wool and feathers at their fishing hook to catch fish in the mountains spring creeks. This is now over 2000 years ago and during this period the first artificial fly was born!
The fishing flies in these days didn’t swim so long at the water surface because antique hooks were very heavy and the qualities of the used fly tying material were simple. Hackles from wild birds were soft, there were no stiff genetic hackles in dry fly quality and the body materials for the flies were often wool and linen which absorb water in the shortest time.
Therefore, you can probably call these first fishing flies as true wet flies!
The whole world of wet fly fishing is very extensive and extremely interesting. The area of the different wet flies patterns extends from the surface to the stream bottom and it is possible to represent nearly all life cycles of insects that live in our waters. For example, soft -hackle flies like “Partridge and Orange” imitate caddies pupae’s etc, wingless-wet flies (flymphs) hatching mayfly duns and spiders can be used as an exhausted spinner. Also a baitfish-pattern is listed as a wet fly, the legendary “Alexandra“. Other traditional winged wet flies like “Peter Ross” and “Butcher” will work too!
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