09-01-2007, 10:24 PM
If your fishing a small stream, I usually don't even mend my line. I keep the fly line off the water and keep up with the fly as it drifts naturally. When mending is needed, the easiest way I've found is just to look where the water is carrying your line down faster than it is anywhere else during the drift and throw this section upstream a bit. Everyone has their own way of doing the "mend", and half the time I mend it looks terrible, but as long as there is slack in your line, the fly can drift naturally without other currents making it drag or pulling it out of the lane. Being able to mend properly really helped me catch fish from areas where the trout have an education.
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