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By Brian Milne, About.com Guide to Fly Fishing

Where to Find Mr. Rainbow

Tuesday May 13, 2008
Here's something to consider next time you head out to that freshly stocked stream you've been planning to visit all year:

Did you know trout feed well below the surface about 90 percent of the time? Makes you wonder why we have all those dry flies in our fly boxes.

Here’s a look at the four basic feeding zones on a typical trout stream and what percentage of the time you can generally find fish there.

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May 26, 2008 at 11:35 am
(1) Richard Cooper says:

As A flyfisher wanna be I find the 90% fact very inlightening, as I write this I’m thinking of all of the media I have enjoyed reading which extoll only the dry fly. What a blast!!!!!!!

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