On Mon, 21 May 2007 01:03:11 +0100, "Niteawk"
wrote:

A fly is a type of insect, titting up a piece of plastic with a feather
makes it a piece of feathered plastic.
Any of that crap you fly fishers (me inc) call flies are not flies at all,
we have all been conned.

A fly is an insect, correct, and we tie things to mimic these insects.
Any caddis tie or mayfly tie is mimicing a legitimate fly.
A streamer is a legitimate fly, but it mimics a fish, but not an
insect. Don't get me wrong; I wouldn't use a plastic worm in fly
fishing only water because I don't believe it is a fly. However, if
you gussy it up with herl and hackle, the *law* might approve of it.
That's all I'm saying. d;o)