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    Posted: 23 Mar 2013 at 4:14pm
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Over the past few seasons there's been a concerted effort launched at New Zealand flytiers in how to "dumb down" flytying... it's almost become flytying for idiots... it's seems, apparently, that the simpler the better.. the less **** we can put on a hook combined with a copper wire rib will suffice...

It seems some claim this as a sort of victory or even a smug discovery...

Keep in mind... You can catch 90% of the fish with an overhead cast... no one is going to put out a book detailing only that and championing that as the way forward for the thinking angler... the same with flytying.... enjoy your discovery, experiment, evolve, and evaluate.. you will find the absolute basics, both casting and tying, will fool the majority of fish and fishermen... but the the extra 5% magic brought by a specialist cast or a specialist fly is wonderful and the world of the dedicated flyfisher....

To dumb everything down is just to try and turn the "art" of flyfishing into another straylining technique
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Well said, fly fishing is not only a pass time but a passion.
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Fly fishing is not a passion . it's a way of life! :) 
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Offering up a fly of your creation for the wary trout to comment upon. Is anticipation at it's extreme best.
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