However, I don't believe it is the hitch failing. Personally, I have tried the 'hitch' a number of times with no success as of yet. Lee's contradiction of Wolff's is not only stated but backed up with words and more detailed illustrations. Lee's approach to the technique was to hold the fly downstream and the throw the hitch onto the head towards the angler. He suggests that while standing at the river's edge, you should hold the head of the fly upriver and tie the hitch around the head on the angler's side of the fly. Lee takes a pretty brave stance in this book stating that he believes Lee Wulff's approach to the hitch was tied on the wrong side. We are constantly receiving repeat training in our work places, why should our sporting life be any different? Tying the hitch 'right', or is it 'left'? That attention to detail is what makes this book not only interesting, but also re-educating.
They even go so far as to illustrate what they feel is the best way to tie the fly to the tippet before throwing on the hitch. If the pictures leave you short, Art Lee fills in the blanks with text. The illustrations are drawn with very every little detail and they leave very little, if any, questions unanswered. Draw by Galen Mercer, if you didn't understand what a hitch was before, you surely will get it now. The illustrations contained in the book are fantastic. As the fly glides across the surface it is turned sideways, depending on which side you apply the hitch, so as to expose more of the fly to the waiting salmon. Their efforts to extent the life of the flies has turned out to be an incredibly successful angling tool.Ī fly that is tied with a hitch will plane the water's surface head first causing a trailing V behind the fly. In the days of early salmon fishing in Newfoundland, many locals guided the English who would leave them their featherwing flies. The 'hitch' or 'Portland hitch' as nicknamed by legend Lee Wulff was created by Portland Creek salmon anglers who threw half hitches of their tippets around the heads of their flies hoping to extend the life span of their gut eyed hooks.
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