Found a great article on mending by Philip Monahan while reading MidCurrent. Here is a link to the feed if you are interested.

Here is an excerpt...

"A good friend of mine, who has been a guide for many years, always draws a distinction between those clients who can cast and those who can actually fish . (He maintains that the former outnumber the latter by a wide margin.) Casting only helps you throw the line through the air. But the fish don't live in the air. They live in the water, and the water is usually moving."