1. The trout disregards the hook and looks at the dressed body. 2. The trout includes the hook as part of the whole package and isn't put off by it. 3. The trout includes the hook as part of the whole package and is put off by it. There's a fourth possibility, and that's "all of the above"...

i could never relate to the use of a capo.......either a singer aint got no range.......or a player caint play in all the keys.....pretty much the same deal, and could be the same person. i guess there's nothin' wrong with cheatin' if you got no choice on the spur............but that kinna lack of ...

lmao.............that's funny Bob, NOBODY would ever say, "the song i'm about to play follows a blues chord progression".....MAN, that's corney...........ya might say, "blues in F"..........or, "you'll hear it." You're right - I'm simpliflying for the non-musicians. Si...

If I took a Hidy pattern and fished it upstream on the River Ure at Hawes, am I following in the footsteps of the traditional Hawes school or just fishing a Flymph upstream? Does it matter? To the extent that it does matter, the question is one of standardizing terminology, not standardizing flies....

willowhead wrote:Wonder if there's any record of them ever having fly fished..............

I believe that both the Cree and Seminoles, at least, used feathered hooks to catch fish before Europeans arrived.

That's a really attractive fly.

How do you see see these? Connect/Disconnect the dots. Wingless wet Spider Soft hackle Flymph Emerger Here's my take: "Wingless wet" is the most all encompassing; it includes spiders, soft hackles and flymphs. "Spider" of course depends on context; in the Catskills it meant a st...

That fly pretty much defines "sparsely tied." Nicely executed.

tie2fish wrote:You're really on a roll, Mark; that beautiful pattern in that size would be a killer during the white fly hatch on the Yellow Breeches.

My exact thoughts when I saw it.

Very nice indeed....... ;) Question: why does one "Very well waxed" the thread if for one, the fly is meant to sink, and two, if there is no dubbing involved? "Well waxed" means to use enough wax (tying wax, not dubbing wax) to change the color of the thread. In this case, it tu...