K.I.S.S.

All through my career, I had a guiding tenet I followed: "keep it simple, stupid," and it worked out just fine for me. And evidently, it has crept into my fly fishing life as well. I learned to fly fish on the Juan with technical setups and enjoyed that for many years. Well, except for when a gust of wind would come up in my back cast and gift me a bird's nest of tangled tippet, nymphs, split shot, with a bobber on top...to make the package a pretty one (sarc).

Also, I used to gear up with a dry fly and a dropper when fishing my small mountain streams. It was a killer set up. Until, I got tired of wading across the stream to try and save a dropper (bead head nymph) that was stuck in the bottom of a Rio. Or, constantly re-rigging dry fly/droppers when having to break them off from a tree. If you know me, you know what happened. I became a dry fly only kind of guy as a result. Yup, that K.I.S.S. principle crept into my fly fishing too and my dry fly simply floats over all of the junk in the streams. And, I'm a happy man because of it. 

But, there's more. We have little bitty sucker fish who are mixed in with our beautiful trout, and they are a pain in the arse because they sometimes want to take my dry fly. I want trout, and don't want to waste my time with suckers on the line. So, I generally fish with a dry fly that's a size or two larger than conditions demand, as a way to keep those sucker fish, with tiny mouths, from taking my dry fly. That sometimes limits the number of trout I can fool in a day. But that's okay. Dry fly fishing keeps my fishing adventures simple (and fun), without all the annoying things mentioned above.

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