The Perfect Fly

Like a lot of things tough to define. Perfect rod, perfect cast all open to opinion. What's perfect today may be a dog tomorrow. But tying flies we try for perfection, which we can only base on does it catch fish. If it doesn't out of the fly box never to be used again.That's what I thought about Barr's emerger and the Six X. Tied a bunch, used them a couple of times and no dice. Put them in the back of the box until one day out of desperation tied one on and pow fish on! So why carry a bunch of unproductive patterns? The first reason maybe its how your presenting them; too deep, too shallow, dead drift. And secondly that magic moment hadn't arrived. So keep experimenting and keep trying new patterns, adjust how your fishing them and have some fun.