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!
Anywhere large fish swim, and small fish are there, the large fish will prefer them.
There are better times to fish streamers, this is something an angler will learn in time.
Give a streamer a try once in a while, you may be surprised.
Brk Trt
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Obviously I have no clue who Make Valla is but I see your point nonetheless (googled his QG).
I look at BRK TRT flies and say, "Wow. Quite stunning, but why on earth would I want to possibly risk losing this fly? Better put it in a shadow box." When with Galloup's flies, I see them and say, "Lordy those are uglier than Catskill Mountain Man, better have it stuffed underwater in the mouth of a trout."
Even an ignorant person like myself cannot leave this out of my expanding library. I will pick it up, and I will use it as the basis in my intro to dry fly tying next year. I devoted this year to learning and tying nymphs and streamers, some soft hackles and no wets. So next year will be dry fly intro and wet fly intro.