So is the concept of matching the hatch just so much crap? If brown trout are readily taking the #6 Parmacheene Belle or a #6 Rich Widow, why do we bother? It's obvious that at that point, these trout will take ANYTHING. I'm amazed they're not eating sticks and rocks. If it looks alive, they go for it? Man, not on the Mad River here in Ohio. I couldn't get fish to take anything bigger than a #22 griffiths gnat last fall. Does size not matter one whit to these fish? I thought size was everything to these picky, fished over browns. You guys catching all these fish on #6 wets are not fishing the same spring creeks I do. I'm dumbfounded. Not saying these flies don't have a place, not at all. I'm sure in fast water where fish have to react to anything that floats by they're a real attention getter. But there are good reasons that the #6 flies don't sell any more, and the number one reason is, nobody buys them.
Eric