Reply To: Only Six Flies for the Spring

Bill,great question and the gist of it is something that Ken and I have discussed numerous times so I will hopefully save you a lecture! The problem with mop head is that they really do not imitate anything natural. They only work because the irritate the fish and then the fish will strike at them. The reason that we use a fly rod rather than a spinning rod is so we can make a more natural presentation with it. I hate it when I am fishing at Montauk in the fly area and I see a guy catching fish and I know that they are using an illegal bait. When I will usually make a comment to them on the water to make them stop. Relying on catching fish with mop head flies really is not fly fishing and so I only use them when nothing else works!