"sandy" wrote in message
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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.

Doesn't seem likely, does it? I'd have to see it myself.....several
times.....before accepting it as gospel..

Wolfgang