Does the fly matter in trout fishing?

BMJ 1999;318:1356 ( 15 May )

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Does the fly matter in trout fishing?

Study broke hallowed tradition among fly fishers

Trout in trout fisheries in New England have different interests

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Study broke hallowed tradition among fly fishers

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EDITOR $---$ The authors of the CRACKPOT study in evidence based trout fishing are to be congratulated on a study protocol thatbroke the hallowed tradition of competitiveness and individualismamong fly fishers.¹ However, the study's design omitted twomajor considerations: the time scale used and the character oftherespondents.

Firstly, within what random periods did the 125 angling hours take place within the 3696 (5 months × 24) available to themin the season? The relative values of a Gold Ribbed Hare's Earand a Cinnamon Sedge, if transposed between a May morning anda September dusk, could give very different results. Secondly,the artificially reared Kennet trout in what is mainly a "putand take" fishery will have had little exposure in their nurseryto natural examples of ephemeroptera on which replicas are based.Selection from CRACKPOT's limited trial range will have had relativelylittle significance to trout conducting their own early . . . [Full text of this article]

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Does the fly matter? The CRACKPOT study in evidence based trout fishing: B J Britton, J Grimley Evans, and J M Potter
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