"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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...The good news:

It doesn't really matter all that much. A season of two of practice and
advice from those who fish frequently where you do will provide you with
all the information you'll need.

Meanwhile, any information you get here will probably be worth taking
seriously, but if ROFF responds true to form, you'll get so much varied
and contradictory advice that sorting it all out will be a lot more
trouble and work than figuring it out for yourself. Either way, good
luck.

For a somewhat different perspective:

"The trout-fly does not resemble any known species of insect. It is a
'conventionalized' creation, as we say of ornamentation. The theory is,
that, fly-fishing being a high art, the fly must not be a tame imitation of
nature, but an artistic suggestion of it. It requires an artist to
construct one; and not every bungler can take a bit of red flannel, a
peacock's feather, a flash of tinsel thread, a cock's plume, a section of a
hen's wing, and fabricate a tiny object that will not look like any fly, but
still will suggest the universal conventional fly."-Charles Dudley Warner.

Wolfgang