like most of us i love too tye flies but in the past few seasions ive bin tying more simple patterns too stock teh box anf slay fish than complex ones i love too create.... while looking through another new book i picked up this week "mayflies by ted fauceglia" i read a funny blurb i think i live by and other do aswell... gave me a good laugh... also made me realize why i started too tye flies in teh first place...enjoy 
  
FLIES THAT APPEAL TOO TROUT 
  
  
simple and sparsely dressed, capturing only major points of the fly 
  
durable, so fly fishers can rapidly cover feeding trout without frequent fly changes 
  
copied with the natural insect as a guide 
  
aimed at imitating the natural behaviour of the fly first of all 
  
  
  
FLIES THAT APPEAL TOO FLY FISHERMAN 
  
  
complicated, striving for imitation that is "exact" in human eyes 
  
fragile,requiring a fly change when a good fish begins too rise 
  
copied from a book or other source of patterns 
  
aimed at imitating less important features of the natural-at the expence of behaviour 
  
datus proper 
what the trout said,1982