In article <3872bfac@news.povray.org>, "TonyB" 
<ben### [at] panamaphoenixnet> wrote:

> Umm... nice, but to me they don't look like flies. I guess the important
> thing it fooling the fish, so if this does it, great job. :)

Sigh...
They are usually designed to look like an insect or animal the fish uses 
as food, such as caddis flies, mayflies, stoneflies(see where the "fly" 
part comes from?). These insects don't bear much of a resemblence to 
houseflies. And some flies are designed to imitate the aquatic nymphal 
or larval forms of the insects, which look *very* different. And some 
imitate terrestrial insects that may fall into the water, like 
grasshoppers or ants. And some imitate small minnows or prey fish, like 
sculpin.
And then there are the variety called attracters, they don't imitate 
anything that we know of, they just catch a lot of fish. The royal 
coachman and royal wulff are of this variety.

The ones in this image happen to be "dry flies", which float above the 
surface of the water using surface tension. There are also wet flies, 
which imitate swimming or drifting insects, nymphs, which imitate the 
nymphal forms, and streamers, which imitate the baitfish.

-- 
Chris Huff
e-mail: chr### [at] yahoocom
Web page: http://chrishuff.dhs.org/

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