Went to Ithaca for the weekend, watched the baby rainbows tearing up the drop pool at Enfield Falls, bodes well for future runs out of Cayuga. Saw college roommates that I had not seen in near 40 years, talk about feeling young again!
Legitimate flies are those being used as imitations of some food stuffs, as opposed to being legal camoflage for a snagging hook. So a 16 caddis in one set of hands is a legitimate fly and in another is no different than a cricket. If a fisher has a flybox containing nothing but 1/0 fuzzies, I would say "snagger"; no fly works 100% of the time, not even wader boy's, I mean 2 bob's, "stuff on shank" series. Like wise you could be carrying the entire fly selection at the local store and if you put on a cannonball and start yanking, appropriate conclusions may be drawn. It's not so much the fly selected as the method with which it is fished.
Psst, please keep this quiet so it does not get out, but those glo bug thingies work really good in a left field color that is sort of a cross between yellow and green, chartroose I think it is called, but you don't want this one out on, lets say, Salmon Crazies. Since there's only about 6 of us here, I'm not too worried, but....
And Fichy, I think the inability to see the tongue in cheek is a mark of a good person, valuing what the other says and giving it credence without judgement, and it is almost the shame for the perpetrator of the guise, but to paraphrase Chesterton, nearly everyone laughs when a man slips on a banana peel. I can tell that sharing water with you would be that, sharing, and I'm hoping to get the chance after my last day in the workforce (until Christmas shopping time, when I will probably be helping fat ladies try to fit into skinny dresses) 9/25!
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