I'll be seeing a couple of relatives this Christmas who fly fish once or twice a year. I'm putting together a few flies for their stockings. I usually try to include only very durable flies in such sets but they are not always the flies I would use myself or hand them if they were fishing with me. I sometimes wonder if I shouldn't go with the best pattern for catching fish and if the wing shreds after a couple of fish, so what! How do you do this kind of thing?