Pat Weiss Questions

1. So this past end of year championship comp, we had two venues and 1 dominate beat in each venue. Beat 2 in the upper venue won 6 out of 8 sessions and beat 3 in the lower venue won 3 out of 6. In competitions:
A. How often does this occur?
B. If it does occur often, do the consistent winners have a mentality to combat this
C. What is that mentality?
2. Fly Patterns: Pat said “He ties his flies with only a couple of materials, old school in the round, with nothing on them that