Yes Rick good article. When I first started tying, I didn't weight anything. Then I started using lead on my Woolly Buggers. Experimented with lead and brass beads and such. For the most part the only fly I tie now both weighted and unweighted are Woolly Buggers. Or if the pattern calls for it, such as SMP, Clousers and some of Rick's patterns. If not then I have moved away from using weight. When I do tie a fly with lead underneath the body, I then wrap some red thread on the nose so I know, which are weighted and which are not.