The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

Sometimes when you spend a great deal of time trying to fix something that isn't working like you had hoped, it can be easy to overlook things that should have been considered at the very beginning. Like whether or not it's even a good idea to begin with. It can also be difficult to give up on something after you've worked so hard on it and spent so much time trying to make it work. It feels like if you give up on an idea after all that work, that all that time has been wasted. It's easy to lose sight of whether or not it's even worth the work that you've already put into it, let alone whether or not it's worth even more effort. A lot of the time it's best to just bust the thing in half and start over from scratch. That works every time. The time you spent on the first attempts isn't wasted as long as it leads to something that works the way you want it. But if you sit there spinning your wheels trying to tweak something that is obviously a lost cause then that's when you begin wasting your time and effort.