Bill McDonald wrote:

(My fly got caught on a back-cast, waded ashore,
untangled, threw said fly into a runoff, waded back out, went to pick
up and had a fish on!) I'm somewhat of a rank amature so this was
somewhat typical for me when nymphing. That fish wsa the ONLY fish I
saw landed on the Beaver during 3 full days of fishing.

Sounds like you needed to reproduce the "tactic" that worked! It would be
interesting to say the least.

But MAYBE there was something about the way the fly was presented when
you threw it into the stream or the spot where the fish hit was a good
type of water or you were just lucky. Sometimes it does pay to try and
reproduce what happened when you got a "lucky" fish.

Willi