Originally Posted by
flybop
So then, maybe the time and place that a fly is fished has more to do with it being classified as an attractor or an imitative pattern. Come on, this is fishing. The fish really, really do not care what we think our flies are. They care about the fly having some type of triggering characteristic that makes them think that maybe it is something to eat. In all but very few situations I will take a well-presented fly within a reasonable range of size, profile and color, over any specific pattern that is poorly presented. In my experience, the trout will also.