Re: [VFB] Is it me???

[DMurphy832]

Not just you, a lot of us.  While I can tie a dozen or so of the exact same pattern when my fishing partner tells me that's what they are taking, I'm very prone on many occassions to making minor adjustments after every 3rd or 4th fly.  Why?  After tying a (let's just use sulfurs as an example) #16 canary yellow, I might change dubbing shades, wing styles/materials, size, ect.  I've learned that subtle changes in a fly might make my fishing better or worse so I like to be able to make minor adjustments in my offerings.   OTOH, I have a real problem in sorting my 3,000 flys into flyboxes, heck, into my large Wallyworld sorting contraption even!  Where do you draw the line when sorting like flys if you have every shade from creamy, almost yellowish, to bright orange sulfurs in a compartment?   Then there's my friend whose solution is to fish only a #18 tan caddis on his home waters.  Its the only fly he ties and he catches more fish usually than I do with all my choices.  Is it the fly or the angler?  (Don't say it Byard!)   Murf