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We just received this letter from M. Rene Crochu, 5 rue de la cerise fourbe, Ricaut sur Gelee (Cher).
Dear gentlemen,
First of all let me introduce myself. I am a Road Repairman in the small town of Ricaut, but above and beyond that, I am known by the residents of the town (426 voters) as a talented inventor.
In 2008 I won the fifth prize at the “Best Invention” competition in a neighboring town with my bigger than life model of the Cat Strangler, a tool much appreciated by the butchers and sausage makers in the area.
I have been passionate about fly fishing since the age of six ; with your permission, I’m sending you a sketch of my latest invention.
As always, when it comes to revolutionary ideas, the idea is terribly simple.
Briefly, let me outline the genesis.
As long as I can remember I have thumbed through great numbers of catalogs with products that claim to help us mount artificial nymphs; it became clear to me that these techniques were frightfully complex and too expensive. In particular, the idea of weighing down hooks in order to fish the river bottom has always struck me as primitive. Adding tungsten weights here or false eyes in lead there, a roll of copper wire (at a considerable price) thrown in, well all of that, thanks to my invention, is in the past, we can start with a clean slate (as the revolutionaries always say). 
It came to me my favorite river. I was closely observing an adorable infant throw rocks at a swimmer when I noticed that said rock, after hitting the head of the athlete, nimbly disappeared toward the river bottom.
By now you have most certainly divined the key to my invention, it is simply to mold the hooks in armored cement or fake stone.
I can’t imagine why no one has thought of that before!
And now for the cherry on the cake, I have just finalized the ideal hook for fashioning a dry fly, it is realized with expanded polystyrene that, as everyone knows, is vested with remarkable floating properties.
My sincere congratulations dear Mouching, for your exceptional blog.
Dear Rene Crochu,
Your ideas are simply marvelous and they throw the doors wide open, for the future of our dear addiction.
For our part we have a project to publish, in the near future, a catalog of revolutionary ideas concerning fly fishing and we will not fail to have a good place for your innovations next to some inventions of our own cogitation.
Among others is our remarkable and efficient imitation almond. Effectively, nowhere in the world is there a chef who (for the grand pleasure of of our refined palates) doesn’t dream of preparing for us the celebrated trout with almonds, an infallible sign of the profound love of man for the fruit of the almond tree.
There is not a shadow of a doubt, that this imitation will be irresistible.
Irresistible, as well, will be the splendidly illustrated catalog by the renowned international artist (and tireless collaborator of le Mouching), Flechemuller.