"DaveMohnsen" wrote

There was a thread here or on ROFFT a few years ago about the Renegade fly
pattern.

The Renegade is one of a handful of 'general purpose' flies that I still
carry ... and it often works damn well when all logic says it shouldn't G
.... try one during a Trico spinner fall, for instance

Like Russell with his beavers, I have a love/hate relationship with trout
that will eat a #16 Renegade or #18 Royal Wullf when the 'hatch' is a size
22 that doesn't look like either pattern and my best efforts at matching
that hatch are failing dismally.

I sometimes wonder if there isn't a fishing god whose sole duty is to seek
out FFishing snobs and bring them back down to reality :-) And not just
pattern snobs .... I've seen it happen to bamboo carrying gear whores too
.... carrying 'the best,' yet beat by the rest .... gotta love it, even when
I'm on the losing side of the deal .... often the very best treatment for a
ailing, and swollen ego is a ding or two.

Anyway, carry a few Renegades ... and let the trout decide if they are
'right' ...... they seem to know more about this stuff than I do G