Beautiful flies vs. Not So Beautiful

On Tue, 02 May 2006 20:43:35 GMT, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:



I'm not quite sure how a fly could be both aesthetically
lacking and well tied at the same time. But having said
that I've tied some awful looking things that caught fish.

I admit to tying a couple of really crappy files that took many fish.
They were wooly-buggers on a size 12, and I guess, in my
late-Saturday-drunken-stupor I didn't get everything quite right, and
after the first fish the hackle, then the chenille, then damn near
everything else started unravelling. But I caught about a half-dozen
nice fish.

Then tied on a beautifully tied wooly, same color, same everything,
and nada. Go figger.