Welcome back to the new NEFF. Take a break from Twitter and Facebook. You don't go to Dicks for your fly fishing gear, you go to your local fly fishing store. Enjoy!
In small streams it's often possible to see a fish just before it takes the fly.
Is it possible that you're striking too soon,, and snatching the fly away from the fish.
Did anyone notice? GST became a ghost town shortly after Rusty Spinner started talking about his prostate. We're more active than they are now. Coincidence?
Agreed, feathers from a freshly killed bird still smell like meat, you may as well be bait fishing.:devilish:
After they start smelling like moth balls, you have to tie a more convincing looking fly. 😁
Do NOT call it "Tri-State", that's the Memphis area... Even if NJ is understood, depending on your location, the other two states could be NY & CT, or NY & PA, or PA & DE, or DE & MD,.
I noticed that after I was accused of "stealing thunder".
Looks like I was disguised as part of the "signature" that most of us ignore, to keep the "thunder" in case anyone was old enough to remember an ancient pun.