Signature Flies

Signature Flies

Paul Arden | Sunday, 21 April 2024

I’ve been reading a very interesting book that shows the same person’s writing but written with dominant hand, dominant hand with wrist immobilised, non dominant hand, pen gripped with the teeth (Jimi Hendrix) and the pen gripped between the toes…

So I repeated this experiment because I didn’t want to break any copyrights and besides “albe was I ere I saw elba” is not exactly fly fishing. Unfortunately the results are arguably a little bit different, so I’ve had to post the image from the book anyway.

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My results, while excellent too of course, are not quite as convincing. Although I’ve discovered that apparently I’m writing with my wrong hand.

Anyway the point of this is that flytying and handwriting are very similar, but I’m not about to tie a Royal Fuckup with my teeth. Not today anyway. Instead evidence no3…

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As can be clearly seen, the genius who tied these flies, was clearly one of the handwriters above. And as we all know big fish eat ugly flies, so I bet he catches a lot of fish too… big ones.

That’s right boys and girls, if you’re not catching as many big fish as you’d like, then perhaps it’s your handwriting that is at fault.

Cheers, Paul