"Larry L" wrote

... imho



Another thing that came to mind.

I don't think anything has improved my fly fishing as much as one simple
rule I came up with and try to follow.

"Don't open a fly box UNTIL you know what fly you are looking for."

In other words try to avoid posing for the classic fly fishing photo of the
guy looking at his box hoping some magic pattern will attract him. This
forces you to do things in a better order, i.e. look around first. As you
tie, try bearing this rule in mind, changing it to, "Is this a
size/color/pattern that I will specifically look for next season." and tie
large quantities of ONLY those combinations that clearly pass the test ...
limiting the "maybe" ties to quantities appropriate for the "experiments"
corner of one box.