I may sound like a broken record at times when conducting these tournament studies, but when it seems like things are being repeated (hence the sounding like a broken record), you need to recognize the patterns and learn from them. Recognizing patterns can only come from experience, and we all know what kind of factor experience plays in any competitive sport.
Two of the things we cannot control when it comes to competition fly angling, but unfortunately play a giant role in our outcomes, is group and beat draws. The group draws rarely ever bothers me, because you are really not against the other anglers, you are up against your beat or more specifically, the fish within your beat.
Drawing a good beat or a bad beat in itself is not the only factor…………but in addition to which beat you draw is when you draw them. My partner Peyton and I learned that difficult lesson yet once again at this year’s version of the Rumble in the Rhododendron.
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