wrote:

The more time we have spent fishing with incorrect or insufficient
knowledge, the more time you have spent developing the mindset that the
trout is a vastly superior, cunning and unpredictable adversary, and
results like mine become seemingly unattainable, and without such
knowledge becoming available, the practical reality remains precisely
that.


Huh? Lemme grab a shovel and give you a hand with that load of horsecrap.


Best bet, grab a rod, stand in a stream, and start spanking the water with
the flyline. Try dropping what looks and moves like what a fish eats round
about where the fish probably are. You'll get the hang of it soon enough.
How-to books, fishing literature, and fishing classics are all great reading
when you've got nothing better -like fishing- to do.

As to which one is smarter, the fish or the fisherman; ever seen a fish
standing in a stream wearing a silly hat, slip and fall in, snapping a $1000
stick of bamboo? Course not - that would be stupid. I rest my case.

It is generally agreed however, that when both have just come out of the
stream, the fish smells a little better than the fisherman. This holds true
for about a day, after which there is little difference between the two.

Hope this helps.

Timothy Juvenal