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To begin, most bubbles are difficult to fill on the streamside unless you fill your mouth with water and spew it into the tiny hole. An easier way is to fill them at home with an eye dropper. To get your line to slide easily through the bubble's tiny ear holes you may have to enlarge one of them, but slightly. The best idea, of course, is to make up a set of variously weighted bubbles. Sometimes when the wind is behind the caster, he will want only an extremely light bubble; when casting into the wind, a heavier one; and then there are times when he will want more than to half-fill the bubble so that it will sink. And for swift water, he may even want an additional 1 to 3 BB shots in the bubble. See Figure 12 for preparation of bubble. Let's try that hop-skipping dry-fly cast first. It's easier than wet fly or nymph. To make a dry-fly skitter insect like, see Figure 13. With a side swing, cast your dry fly above the trouty area where fast water meets slow. As with a lure, tighten up on it slightly in midair to extract the weighted bubble's momentum and let it alight on the water gently. Keep your rod tip up to hold most of your gossamer line out of the water. As the fly rides, twitch the rod tip and the dangling fly will pepper the water. And if you've cast so that the fly will hop-skip-and-jump through the hot spot and trout are on the peck, you're in for some trout-happy action.
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