11-21-2011, 11:14 PM
Old T-
It really depends on my needs. The question is whether I am going fishing with a mind-set of pleasing the fish or pleasing myself.
If the former then it is likely it will be a store-bought gotta-have standard fly pattern.
If the latter, which is by far the most frequent, I fish the way I want with flies that please me. Those flies are some variation in size and/or color of things that have worked before or from some new material that I tied the day before. I try to think somewhat contrarian and outside the box before I give into conventional wisdom.
My judgement is that it is not a disease, and if there's a cure for what doesn't ail me, who cares?
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It really depends on my needs. The question is whether I am going fishing with a mind-set of pleasing the fish or pleasing myself.
If the former then it is likely it will be a store-bought gotta-have standard fly pattern.
If the latter, which is by far the most frequent, I fish the way I want with flies that please me. Those flies are some variation in size and/or color of things that have worked before or from some new material that I tied the day before. I try to think somewhat contrarian and outside the box before I give into conventional wisdom.
My judgement is that it is not a disease, and if there's a cure for what doesn't ail me, who cares?
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