During your journey toward being an expert fly fisher, you should make a habit of picking up rocks from the riverbed and examining nearby bushes to identify the important insects in that stream. Some fly fishers eventually evolve into amateur entomologists and take and keep samples of the insects they find with the idea of tying flies that more accurately imitate them.
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