On Oct 19, 1:52 pm, Frank Reid wrote:
p.s. I'll remember that fly size is #1, then pattern, and then
color :-)

Thats right. A few weeks ago, I was on a river with a hex hatch going
on. I was throwing a small crawfish pattern that the fish were
hitting on the surface before it had a chance to sink. Crawdads don't
look a whole hell of alot like hex's, but the fish didn't care.
Frank Reid

A week ago I took my young daughter fishing (warm water fishing with a
kids spinning rod). She was fishing live bait with a teeny tiny
yellow bobber. I noticed fish were hitting the bobber on the surface,
but not touching her bait. I asked her if she would like to fly fish,
and I let her use my fly rod. I tied a yellow terrestrial spider on
for her and she tore the bass and bluegill up. We could have caught a
100 of them, but I finally convinced her we had to get home or mom
would report us a missing-in-action.

The spider was the size and color of that teeny-tiny yellow bobber. I
think they would have gone after anything that size and color - with a
passion that day.

- Dave K.