maxwell Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walker1 Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Amen to that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crowsnest Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Agree that many flys/lures are meant to entice the fisherman, rather than the fish. as evidenced by Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxwell Posted September 20, 2008 Author Share Posted September 20, 2008 lmao but homer invented the nananananana fishing nananannanana fishin, fishing, fishing, fishin song! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
126barnes Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 Not sure about that. I'm a lazy tyer no legs or wing case on my nymphs, I'm sure if I were to include these features that the 5# brun I was bumping my drift off his nose yesterday would of took my offering. Cus it certaining could not of been anything I was doing wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverDoctor Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 Does this one count? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agbff Posted September 21, 2008 Share Posted September 21, 2008 that one counts for sure... I'd eat it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonAndersen Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 Are your flies dressed like this: When they should look like this: Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdock Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 Agree that many flys/lures are meant to entice the fisherman, rather than the fish. as evidenced by I NEED that lure! It's what Blinky would eat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdock Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 Are your flies dressed like this: When they should look like this: Don Less is more! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loyaleddie Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 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 But you need a little of this, when chasin bulls Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teck71 Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 damn LE, wish I could figure out how to unsee that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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