Wolfgang wrote:


Well, it (house fly legs) IS reasonable......as long as one doesn't adhere to the narrow view
that reasonableness is affected by such mundane considerations as utility,

I don't object to tying the fly that way.
I tie lots of bizarre and largely irrelevant flies.

But I (still can't) buy Marinaro's argument that it
did indeed matter--that he caught more
fish on house fly patterns that had two criss-crossed front legs.