On Jul 28, 3:26*pm, Dave LaCourse wrote:
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*Plus, a fish are eating machines - they'll strike if their
belly is full or empty.

I'll never forget fishing one of Michigan's upper peninsula streams
(each and every one a jewel!) and taking brookie after brookie on a
horsefly imitation. Almost every one of those brookies was so full
when I brought them to hand that they had bugs all the way up their
throats and into their mouths! But still they'd take my fly with
reckless abandon.

Dreaming of birch, loons, and the howl of timber wolves,
B