Last year I "tripped" over a fly I tied when I was about 10 years old, my first streamer. Like Al, some 50 years ago. I'd wanted to get it to sink and wrapped a bunch of lead wire over the head, which was about a quarter inch thick! I'll challenge anyone to an uglier fly. It was a very early imitation of a Mickey Finn with red and yellow bucktail. I was pretty darned proud to catch bass on that thing, and my guess is that I thought I was pretty clever, too. This stuff is a journey. My flies are more sparse and hopefully more balanced. Still, I'm a warmwater tyer and it looks like it. For that I offer absolutely no apologies! JGW