I've had the pleasure of landing some really nice permit. I've also had the pleasure of watching them as they looked at a very nice crab imitation and wouldn't eat. Strip a couple inches and the fish would follow it with magnifying glass making sure it was a fake. Strip again and Mr. Scrupulous would pull out magnifying glass again to count the thread wraps, bend of the hook, barb/no barb, etc. Another strip and the fish would hover 1/2" from the fly making mental notes to ensure it would never inhale anything that wasn't real meat with no hook attached.


Humbling.
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I swung, therefore, I was