Fly can be distractions to finding the real patterns Oct, 2002

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Date: December 21, 2002 at 23:12:49
From: ken, [pool-64-223-39-246.prov.east.verizon.net]
Subject: Fly can be distractions to finding the real patterns Oct, 2002

I am not sure that I understand what you are saying. The patterns are real and they are in the present. Recognizing them is also in the present. Yesterdays patterns are not operational today. They may be the same as yesterdays but they are today's patterns none-the-less. If that is what you are saying then I understand and I am in agreement. I am not digging through several layers to get at the pattern. It is what is happening now. Flies are not a part of the pattern I am talking about and a sparkle bozo buxter is not surity nor is a pale little bucktail. The patterns I am talking about are about similar behavior and similar locations. Fly pattern selection falls under fishing techniques that can be refined. The fish have to be located first before you refine fly pattern and technique. You do not always need the right fly to find the pattern and finding a fly that works does not lead to finding a pattern. Looking for a location pattern for that day does. This is not semantics it is a different focus. Forget about flies as being important even if you have to spinfish and use plugs to break the trance of the right fly. Find a fish first and then focus on what you can deduce from finding it then explore and then refine the fly selection to catch them. Read M.J. again there is much more depth in what he is saying than trying to catch fish with yesterdays solutions. The last line he says is leaving the fishing rod back at the car as a way of leaving the blinders off and focusing on flies is one of the problems that blinds one to the movements of forage and bass. Getting back to raw in the moment observation is what helped him break the rut. Human beings like to set up routines to follow to insure success. The routines he set up based on past success were reasonable but prevented him from observing in the present moment. His patterns were askew to what was happening with the bait and the fish. He is a good fisherman but fell into being a reasonable predictor. Reason has perfect hindsight and lies to us to make us believe it is a perfect predictor. It isn't but it won't admit it because it is scared to admit it doesn't know what will happen. That is called "Ego" by some and it doesn't like the humility that humbles it. It likes to think it has all the answers. The patterns I am talking about are seeing what is going on in the moment and exploring from that not predicting what will happen but what is happening now. Flies that are working are incidental although important for catching fish but are not part of the larger pattern. More than one fly pattern will work at any given time.

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