We have a 'Park Lake Guru' in our club; he excels at catching fish at Park Lake near Soap Lake. Every year our club has him do a fly tying class on "The Flies of Park Lake".

A few years ago I watched him catching fish after fish, almost non-stop while the rest of us were doing ok, but no where near as good as him. We all came in for lunch at the same time and I asked to see his fly. Sure, he was using one of the flies he taught us to tie, but it was so chewed up and missing half of its original material, that you wouldn't recognize it as on of his favorite flies.

It was how he was fishing the fly that got him all those fish, not the fly itself.

Larry ---sagefisher---