ORIGINAL: RIZ lighten up cold, it was said with sarcasm
ORIGINAL: Cold What makes any part of his post elitist? I don't detect a trace of it. If anything, it reads (to me) with a tone of 'dont let all the hype intimidate you, give it a good honest try, and work on technique and its really not that hard'. The junk comment really is just objective truth. Doesn't mean that it wont work. It's a fly tied to just look ridiculous enough for a fish to have to sample, probably thrown together from the scraps of an egg-tying session. I've seen entire fly swaps dedicated to 'junk flies' made from parts of materials that most tyers simply throw away.
ORIGINAL: SCampbells88 ORIGINAL: RIZ 88 suffers from an affliction called elitism. it's a condition that affects those who wish to feel superior to others. the symptoms usually manifest themselves by picking a hobby and determining that there is only 1 proper way to perform this hobby, in many cases flyfishing is the vehicle of this manifistation. elitism may also manifest into a more sever form of uber elitism where the affect party takes the hobby to the a more radical form of specialization, for example in fly fishing, using only dry flies made of natural material and only fished quartering upstream. if you can't laugh at yourself you will never laugh with others. 88 don't take yourself so seriously, it only fishing. lol buddy, if you only knew, i doubt you'd be typing that...
ORIGINAL: RIZ 88 suffers from an affliction called elitism. it's a condition that affects those who wish to feel superior to others. the symptoms usually manifest themselves by picking a hobby and determining that there is only 1 proper way to perform this hobby, in many cases flyfishing is the vehicle of this manifistation. elitism may also manifest into a more sever form of uber elitism where the affect party takes the hobby to the a more radical form of specialization, for example in fly fishing, using only dry flies made of natural material and only fished quartering upstream. if you can't laugh at yourself you will never laugh with others. 88 don't take yourself so seriously, it only fishing.