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