mdk77 wrote:

I learned my lesson. I will NEVER again let myself get down to the last
fly of a given pattern and size. Never.


um...well...let me simply suggest "never" occurs with a stunning
frequency for an awful lot of trout fishing folk.... hell, i've seen it
up close several times just in the last few months. i bet it will occur
with you to some degree even though you have a heightened sense of the
"nevermore". but...it does inspire "perhaps", which i kinda like.

jeff