Thursday

One last broken hook:

Thinking about the past when I first started fly fishing, I often was in situations that I had shortage of flies to use in my fly box. With more experience and tying that I do now, I do have more flies in the box and I do get better result. But time to time, there is always the one hook that work in the water at the end of bad day but that hook has some quality problem. I had that problem recently and I'm determined to better equip my box better for next trip.

4 comments:

  1. i hate it when that happens. Or when you have a fly that works great that day, but you have only one, and it ends up in a tree.

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  2. Well that case, we somehow bend that branch or climb the tree to get that fly.

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  3. But have you ever had the situation when your fly starts to come apart and the fish just go crazy for it? This has happened to me with pheasant tails in particular. Because of this I have a friend who advocates a real "messy" style of fly tying. Flies are usually tied for fishermen and not fish.

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  4. I'm good at that - messy flies that fall apart.

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