I know we have that long winded thread going but this is a little aside and should be short if we don't get into definitions of what a fly is and so on.

Buddy mentioned in the other thread that as long as we are casting the weight of the fly line we are fly fishing. I found that interesting because I had not exactly thought of it that way and it may be the definition.....I don't think so though...to me it doesn't go far enough.....shouldn't it be ???

...Fly fishing is fishing using a technique whereby you are using a rod that is casting the weight of a line with a fly on it.

Note ..nothing said about a reel...and no definition of a fly or rod necessary

I haven't bothered to go to the dictionary....