... fishing the water, with dries as a first choice and nymphs as a second choice, to sight fishing or fishing to rising fish.

I certainly won't walk away from rising fish to go fish the water, but I won't go looking for rising fish and pass up the challenge of finding good holding water and pounding fish up with an original homebrew pattern.

The past couple days have been very interesting - field testing a size 22 loop wing BWO. A nice blend of presenting it to fish that have shown themselves taking naturals and fishing good holding water and getting a good number of lurkers hooked up - the best of both worlds.

John