02-12-2013, 07:16 PM
I'd say "yes" but it's not necessarily a quality thing, IMO. I think the biggest thing is that you gain a lot of flexibility in designing flies that fit a given situation. Plus, I think there's something to be said about throwing different patterns at fish that see a lot of patterns over time (Provo, Green, Weber etc). I've remember discovering a sow-bug and creating a pattern for it long before they showed up in fly shops around the valley. I'm sure I wasn't the first, but that's what you get when you can roll your own...
But beyond that, I sometimes don't care if they catch "more". I like to tie and catch fish on my patterns and get a great deal of enjoyment out of that aspect of it. I'm sure the shop flies might look better because the person tying them has tied literally thousands of a given pattern.
Anyway, just my 2 cents...
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But beyond that, I sometimes don't care if they catch "more". I like to tie and catch fish on my patterns and get a great deal of enjoyment out of that aspect of it. I'm sure the shop flies might look better because the person tying them has tied literally thousands of a given pattern.
Anyway, just my 2 cents...
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