"There are several schools of fly-tying in a way similar to various movements in modern art. Minimalism, super realism, post modernism and, of course, impressionism. I find the older I get, the more minimalist my ties are becoming. For example, I rarely use dubbing on my mayflies, just thread to form the bodies." Randall Sumner wonders how fly tying might have changed had Pablo Picasso been born in Livingston, Montana. In the Yakima (Washington) Herald Republic.
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