RELEVANCE - Readers Cast (Neil) - jun 6, 2018

RELEVANCE

Many ?modern? anglers have little interest in the history of fly fishing. They consider it to be dull and boring having little practical value and no application to current fly fishing practice. In many ways the viewpoint is correct. Knowledge of angling history is unlikely to improve your casting, insect identification or your fly tying techniques but it?s important to know where we came from and how we got here. When you study fly fishing history you soon discover that there is nothing truly new; there are just new ways of doing the same things.