failures

Larry L wrote:
It's pretty easy to share/ get others to share successes at the vise ....
patterns that produce.

But, as I clean out my boxes at the end of a season, and prepare to restock
them, I note some real failures ...patterns that I thought "should" work but
that failed to impress the trout.

We can clearly learn from and make use of other's successes, but we can also
learn from efforts that didn't work out

So, one glaring example of failure in my boxes last season was any effort I
made to incorporate "Ice Dub" Being a typical fly tying sucker, I
bought several colors of this stuff and tried it on a variety of patterns
where it seemed to make sense. None worked well, and the only one that
wasn't a total waste of hook and time was a Troth PT nymph with the real
peacock replaced with "peacock" Ice Dub. Even this pattern is well
outfished by the real deal, however.

Any attempt I made to use this product for trailing shucks, emerger bodies,
or other things where it looks damn good "in the vise" left the fish
laughing in their lies or running for cover, in the cases of the more timid
creatures. I don't think I caught a single fish on a fly using this ultra
reflective stuff, with the exception noted above, and I tried it in several
pattern variations and on several waters.

I have no clue why, it DOES look cool to me, and my brain is about trout
sized. I have several bags of Ice Dub that are now in the garbage can. I
could afford to travel and fish another month each year if I wasn't such a
sucker at fly shops G

your words ring true,of trout
-but the reflective quailities are just the ticket for bass and bream flies
- what I like to call my practice fish ,they must have smaller than
trout sized brains.
some of these flies look bad in the vise but the fish love um up
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