Skill is Nice...

"George Cleveland" wrote in message
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...but sometimes luck is better.

The fly I was using was an old fashioned hackled dry. At a time in our
sport's history when most flies seem to be made from things like duck
butt feathers, brass beads and/or sparkly synthetic rug yarn this
thing was a throwback. A tail of moose mane, body of brown dyed hares
mask, Cree hackle and wood duck wings, it would have seemed a normal
fly to our grandsires. It was pleasantly anachronistic to see it
working on the fish tonight.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2.../IMG_0017a.jpg

g.c.

Looks about like most of the flies I fish with. I'm in my 51st year of fly
fishing and haven't changed what I tie very much. Why mess with success. I
do use CDC, sparkle yarn and some of the other new stuff occasionally, but
still fish mostly the traditionals with moderate success.

Nice report. I never seem to be able to get out as often as I plan - Seem to
fish less since retiring 8 years ago. Lost my time management skills, I
guess.

Gene