How many of you get these kinds of comments when you tell others you're a flyfisher?

I've had the standard, "there aren't any trout in there..." comments, too, but the one a value the most came one day while fishing from my kayak at Ricketts Glen State Park. I was casting in a small cove and two people in a canoe paddled by. They stopped to watch for a little while and then I heard the woman say to her friend, "it's really quite beautiful like a dance, isn't it?" I know they weren't fly fishers because no one with real knowledge of the sport would call my casting beautiful, but it really pleased me.

I don't get many replies like that here in Montana. I did go on a canoe trip into the Boundary Waters in Minnesota many years ago and while I was portaging some others guys came by my pile of gear and saw my rod said, "is that a fly rod!" rather incredulously. It was like maybe the first one he had seen in real life. Possibly they are more common there now, that was nearly 25 years ago.