Quote Originally Posted by Allan View Post
. 'A fly imitates a water born or water found insect. It is tyed on a single pointed hook. It may have some minor added weight wrapped under the body but the attachment of a weighted or even an unweighted bead head makes it a 'lure'.

Court Justice Potter Stewart said about 'obsenity' (again paraphrasing) 'I may not know how to define it but I'll know it when I see it'.
That excludes a lot of new and classic patterns for leeches, crawfish, minnows, and a large group of salt water patterns I cannot name. There are classic salmon patterns tied on double hooks and new patterns and old with wire for strictly weight and wire as part of the fly. Isn't the real question when is a lure a fly? If memory serves me well, I believe the first fish I ever caught on a outfit with a rod and reel was on a popping bug behind a bobber on my first spincast outfit. Was the popper still a fly? Or does the lure have to attached to a flyline on a flyrod? Is a plastic worm or shad thrown with a flyrod a fly?