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December 31st, 2008, 08:17 PM
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First three dozen
Tied up next season's first three dozen flies this morning, all soft hackles
I was shown by "??". For some reason, his tiny little variations seem to greatly improve the effectiveness of standard patterns and I know for a fact that he has tested a great many slight changes to arrive at his particular favorites. He lives in a travel trailer and fishes all season like many of my small circle of FFing buds .... and almost 100% with soft hackles on the swing. He catches a lot of very large trout doing so. Last year he got a true 20inch Brown out of Firehole's Muleshoe Bend !!! and one out of the Big Hole that looked near 10 pounds in the photo I saw ... plus many others of note ... all on SHs Sorry I'm not a liberty to reveal any of those small pattern details ... g 
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