The Butterfly Effect
This week was an eventful one. I will spare the details, but it involved a couple dogs. Aside from that, I took the opportunity to tie butterflies this week. It seemed like a fun thing to tie because colors are expressed in every shade on butterflies.
Some activities that fall under the entity theory I can think of are common sense based. The main one for me is to get out of the rain if I do not have waterproof clothing. I might build a shelter to protect myself or things I own. Others are cooking, carving, and foraging. All are basic necessities to live in life beyond my own home. But my knowledge in these activities do not increase my intelligence. They rather work to help me survive.
For incremental theory, activities that are new can fall under the category. Some that I can think of are playing the piano, tying flies, driving, and singing. These are tasks that increase intelligence within me but have to be built upon to fully achieve anything from them.
Most of my new occupations, whether occurring in the past or present, have been incremental. They are primarily novel and need to be built upon to make them proficient. Every new task I learn will never be natural to me. It requires work on my part to achieve a sense of accomplishment. With my new occupation, I started by tying horrible flies that covered the eyelet of the hook. Now I am able to tie ones that look decent. I am not a master, but with practice my new occupation has improved since day one.
Your fly looks really good! I’ve seen some of your other pictures, and it’s very cool. I see you have tried different types of flies. My grandpa used to do fly-tying of just one type because he always went to a certain place in Montana and swore it was his lucky fly. Is there a certain place that works better for each fly? Are there certain fish that you would catch with one fly or another?
ReplyDeleteHello Marissa,
ReplyDeleteTo answer your questions, the place specifically does not matter for certain flies. It does matter what hatch has occurred in the area. This is called "match the hatch". It means that if the stonefly nymphs are transitioning into adults, then you use a stonefly because the fish are actively looking for that pattern. Most fish are universal. For example, around here we have predominately trout species. They tend to eat anything that appears familiar to them. So San Juan worms and nymphs as well as wooly buggars all work well if they are feeding below the surface. If they are actively feeding on top-water species, then mosquitos, dragon flies, stoneflies, or other similar types of floating flies will work best. A bass will also hit those flies, but are more willing to bite unfamiliar baits such as bumblebees, cicadas, and mouse type flies. If I had to guess, your grandpa was heading to Montana to catch trout. If the fish were hitting top water, then it was a mosquito or other similar bug type flies. If they were biting below he would have used a wooly buggar or another type of streamer to catch them.
Thank you for your comment!