<h3>Rapalica Articles--Lures: large heavy small and light</h3>
I've published 15-20 articles in fly fishing magazines over the years--mostly about fly tying inventions. But I've never had much luck publishing wiggler articles. Perhaps that's why I've written so many of them.
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An editor of a fly fishing magazine once told me (in the mid-1980s or so) he thought my wigglers were interesting, but he was afraid "the readers would rebel" if he published my stuff. Another, less complementary editor once said "there is a question about weather it is a fly or not." You could almost feel that editor's chin rising above his keyboard as he wrote that sentance. Another editor said "this isn't the direction I want to take the magazine."
The ground rules for publication in fly fishing magazines are clear. If you write something about developmentally disabled mayfly emergers you'll get published in a flash. In the BMP Duns piece I refered to the BMP Dun as (sic) " an irrelevant wintertime fantasy" and still got published--first try no questions asked. If you write something about lure-like flies that actually catch big fish, however, your chances for publication are a limit approaching zero. Now don't get me wrong. I love fishing a PMD hatch, perhaps most of all. And I do it well; I like Pecan Pie too. But I do get a belly ache if I eat too much of it.
Are these lures, flyrod lures or flies? That's a question I don't know how to answer. It's also a question I don't pay much attention to. All of these wigglers can be made light enough to cast with a flyrod or heavy enough throw with a bait casting rod. You're free to fish the way you like. I've been doing it for years.
G.E.M. Sandy
Editor, MRBoats.com