Matthew, Drew my son, and I went fishing to Dupont State Forest near Hendersonville, NC Saturday. We took the easy and secluded 1.5 mile hike in to Wintergreen Falls to try our hand at fooling some of the plentiful rainbow trout. Aside from the sheer fright for Drew of seeing several horses
I hear some anglers refer to braided leaders and furled leaders as if they are one and the same which is not correct. A braided leader is produced by braiding (also called plaiting) three or more strands together. Three strands result in a flat ribbon line while more strands will result in a line that is more round. Braiding produces a leader with a small hollow core and with just enough stretch to act as a shock absorber.
Here in North Carolina we are starting to face the extremely warm weather of summer as we usually do in June, and we are concerned with the warm water temperature issue while fly fishing for trout. Water temperature is very important anytime of the year but especially during the hot summer season.
This is about the time of the year that my attention turns to terrestrial flies and the spectacular hits that can be had. Webster’s definition of terrestrial is “living on or in or growing from land”. Basically, terrestrial insects are insects that are born on land and remain on land all their life unless they are blown into the water by wind or accidentally get into the water some other way. They probably don't have the intelligence to know that water is dangerous to their well being and just land there by chance as well as anywhere else.
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