Hans,

I think the operative word in your query was 'confidence'. Too many times I've seen the 'wrong' fly fished confidently to success.

And, while I understand that there are those who can approach a body of water, look carefully at the conditions, and confidently decide that the fish are taking a particualr insect, I doubt there are many of them.

For the rest of us, it's lucky that our quarry has brain the size of a pea, can't actually 'think' as we know the term, and is, in reality, pretty easy to 'fool'. Otherwise, only a very few of us would EVER catch a fish.

Confidence is, in my estimation, much more important for the angler than fly selection.

Thank God trout are dumb....

Good Luck!

Buddy

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