Almost never tie standard patterns anymore. The inventing followed by
trial 'n' error, is half the fun. It's especially rewarding when an
invention turns into a dynamite pattern.

While my new website is still in its half finished state, a trip to
Flies - Weamers will show my most successful one so far (number of
fish & species vs. time used). The brown trout version has taken
brown trout, smallies, steelhead, 'bows, chinook, and pike. The
alewife version has so far taken pike and chinook. The Dirty Harry
(not shown) has a few steelies to it's credit.

In terms of sheer numbers, the Mini-brown holds the record with
probably a couple of hundred browns, brookies, and baby steelies to
its credit.

Peter