Was just trying to get some activity going on this board.
At least I got one rise.
I don't buy your test. If you can cast a 3 inch plastic sluggo 100 feet, does that make it a fly?
As far as what difference it makes whether the lead is on the leader or the fly, it probably doesn't. The clouser catches lots of fish, perhaps better than any other pattern. Note I didn't call it a fly.
Look at Maine, where they are serious about their fly fishing traditions. Until recently, NO WEIGHT at all could be built into a fly for it to be a legal fly on fly fishing only waters. And you had to FLY CAST, no trolling.
I was at a Rhody Rodders meeting last winter where J. Edson Leonard, the author of "Flies" and Armand Courchaine agreed that if the fly was weighted, it WASN'T a fly.
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