"Chas Wade" wrote

.. I dapped one of the #14 orange stimulators I
tied last year for the swap, and the fish came up and sucked it in
about 15 feet in front of me. An average sized fish, 15 inches or so,
that put up a good fight. That was my only rise to a dry.



I'd be interested in the "thought process" that led to selecting the fly
...... "how brains work" is always an interesting topic to me. I often
hear stories of fishing success ( this being an example ) using flies/
tactics that would likely never occur to me in a similar situation ... and
like to understand how others reach decisions, hoping it will help me "
think out of the box" more often