"Mike Connor" wrote

match the supposed hatch. If one is accurate with ones predictions, ( or
the chart is accurate!) this too can be pretty successful.



A couple years ago was a hot and accelerated season. Over a week after the
last Green Drake was seen, I saw a guy tossing a big green paradrake
pattern at some nice rising fish.

As I passed he asked the common, "how ya doin' " and I said I had managed to
catch a couple. He was fishless he replied and couldn't understand it as
"the fish 'should' be eating Green Drakes at this time of year"

Hatch chart blindness G there was absolutely nothing that even vaguely
resembled a Green Drake on the water, except that lone Paradrake.




On the "pattern vs presentation" deal ... I agree that presentation, as
defined by Willi is the game .... but the average guy thinks presentation as
nothing more than "no drag,"

To them, I like to say, and it IS true, for me .... "Somehow I always find
it easier to get a good presentation with the right pattern."