My girlfriend usually steals alot of my flies when she comes to town. But if a pattern is working well for me I'll pass them off to friends or someone struggling on the river. One day I was catching alot of fish and this one guy hadn't had anything. It was kinda a remote stretch and we were the only ones in the canyon but he sat and watched me catch four nice browns in a row. He then asked me what I was using because he was getting skunked. The night before I had tied about a dozen of this pattern for the day, so I gave him two of them. I ran into him later in the day and he couldn't thank me enough, he said on his second cast BAM it was game on! So I don't mind handing them out on the river if you're nice enough.