On Feb 11, 11:20*am, riverman wrote:
*Anyone else?

Can't remember specifically; but it was probably a shad fly. My
better recollection, however, was for a salmon nymph I sort of
"invented" myself from a misreading of a description. Tied it up, &
it looked as though it would work, so I fished it. Caught fish. It's
actually become a staple in my fly box on my Salmon River trips.

I compounded that satisfaction the following year when I caught a nice
fish on a fly I tied using a rod I built. Good karma all around.
(Now if I could just learn to distill single malt....)

Joe F.