(you watching me or something)
Others that really leave me scratchin are :
- all day you can lay a cast anywhere on the water you want with precision - even a 40ft cast, in wind, to place the fly between the tree branches to reach that honey hole. That is ... until it is the last fly of that pattern that's catching fish, then the trees will eat it and spook the fish.
- fishing a freestone stream, I will always find that one rock that is big enough to steal a fly.
- warmwater fishing for toothless ones (read: mono tippet) ... a gator (aka pike) will always like your fly better than the miniscule food sources around.
- on a 90 degree day - when you take only chest waders to get into the river, the river is only 2 ft deep.
- work an area for a while with no success - high, low, dry, wet - nada. Then set the boy up to get going, and in that hole, and he pulls in the biggest fish of the day - same fly - same set-up.