As I continued to watch my daughter, Manteee, and this other girl hit better and better I could not help but feel an enormous amount pleasure. They were transforming in front of me. Whatever those coaches told them and whatever those two girls absorbed from their coaches was generating solid hit after solid hit.

I could not believe how happy I was for my daughter and girl I did not know. There is something wonderful about learning and that willingness to be taught. Even though I only watched them I felt as if I was part of what was evolving in front of me.

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Let’s start at basics. Nymphs are, as defined by Meriam-Webster dictionary : “any of various immature insects; especially : a larva of an insect (as a grasshopper, true bug, or mayfly) with incomplete metamorphosis that differs from imago especially in size and in its incompletely developed wings and genitalia”

In everyday terms, nymphs are aquatic insects that are still in their underwater stage, as in not yet having reached their adult, or flying stage of life. One thing worth remembering is that, if you enjoy dry fly fishing, all flies you see on water are adult insects. These insects have “grown up” from their underwater stage and have taken to air for their mating rituals. In essence, dry fly fishing involves using fly imitations that involve imitations of adult aquatic insect (such as a mayfly, caddis fly or stonefly). By contrast, when nymph fly fishing, angler attempts to imitate younger, underwater stage of these exact same flies.