I wanted to shed my boxes of the bulk of the patterns that have been successful, but lack the rationale, reproducibility and consistency that I see other masters at the craft carrying in their boxes and landing trout all day long. Watch Bill outfish us during a March Brown hatch, or a Green Drake hatch, or late season when all they want are ants. Ask him what he took that last nice one on...sulphur flymph. sulphur emerger. little yellow comparadun. In Montana in mid June while trying to sort out what fish were taking I watched him land some beaut's in big water and of course when I get down to him, "what did you get him on?" "He took the little sulphur nymph behind the emerger, but the last one took the emerger." Of course.
I'm looking forward to casting a few of these out this season, and I certainly don't want to be on the water without a few. Comparaduns either. I've learned my lesson. 1. It's the fisherman and the presentation and not the pattern (nothing I can do about that but watch and learn) and 2. trout love these sulphur emerging softies.
