11-01-2008, 12:07 AM
That's absolutely true, Flygoddes. But the game plan is to assemble a minimal collection that you could depend on for that species and conditions.
There always are exceptions and off-beat things happening on the water. I recollect once in the Mt. Washington Valley. The guy in the flyshop said the brookies were hitting on big nymphs. We're talking about a hard fished stream, now, for brookies that average about ten or 11 inches.
"How big are we talking," I asked. "8s and 10s?"
"Oh, no," he said. "Big ones. 2s and 4s."
Fortunately I still had my Montana boxes in the truck, and we slayed them on #2 Bitch Creek nymphs.
But I wouldn't count on that as a regular occurance.
Similarly, if you were putting together a box specifically for smallies I doubt you'd include a chironomid for that purpose.
But, then again, that's why we call it fishing. If it were easy we'd call it catching.
Brook
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There always are exceptions and off-beat things happening on the water. I recollect once in the Mt. Washington Valley. The guy in the flyshop said the brookies were hitting on big nymphs. We're talking about a hard fished stream, now, for brookies that average about ten or 11 inches.
"How big are we talking," I asked. "8s and 10s?"
"Oh, no," he said. "Big ones. 2s and 4s."
Fortunately I still had my Montana boxes in the truck, and we slayed them on #2 Bitch Creek nymphs.
But I wouldn't count on that as a regular occurance.
Similarly, if you were putting together a box specifically for smallies I doubt you'd include a chironomid for that purpose.
But, then again, that's why we call it fishing. If it were easy we'd call it catching.
Brook
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