Temptation

"sandy" wrote in message
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Wolfgang wrote:
and I don't recall ever catching a fish with one
on the few occasions that I tried, but fun stuff to play with.

Wolfgang

Didn't Vincent Marinaro make some experimental spinners
(adult mayflies, that is) with small clipped and plugged
quill bodies?

Don't know about Marinaro, but I do have a vague recollection of running
into references somewhere in the literature a long time ago.

Marinaro used to be my fly tying role model, until
he published "In the Ring of the Rise" and tried
convice me (us) that a house fly pattern with crossed front
legs--made from two individual hackle fibers--was a reasonable
thing to do.

Well, it IS reasonable......as long as one doesn't adhere to the narrow view
that reasonableness is affected by such mundane considerations as utility,
time, cost, effort, etc.

After that I took a deep breath and sigh, and reverted
back to my redneck roots.

Crickets, crawdads and crawlers? See Forgotten Treasures #18, the second
half of which was just posted here accidentally, over in ROFF for an
interesting look at the latter.

Wolfgang

Wolfgang

Wolfgang wrote:


Well, it (house fly legs) IS reasonable......as long as one doesn't adhere to the narrow view
that reasonableness is affected by such mundane considerations as utility,

I don't object to tying the fly that way.
I tie lots of bizarre and largely irrelevant flies.

But I (still can't) buy Marinaro's argument that it
did indeed matter--that he caught more
fish on house fly patterns that had two criss-crossed front legs.

"sandy" wrote in message
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Wolfgang wrote:


Well, it (house fly legs) IS reasonable......as long as one doesn't
adhere to the narrow view that reasonableness is affected by such mundane
considerations as utility,

I don't object to tying the fly that way.
I tie lots of bizarre and largely irrelevant flies.

But I (still can't) buy Marinaro's argument that it
did indeed matter--that he caught more
fish on house fly patterns that had two criss-crossed front legs.

Doesn't seem likely, does it? I'd have to see it myself.....several
times.....before accepting it as gospel..

Wolfgang