What was the most difficult part of fly fishing for you to master?
What was most difficult for you in FF
What was the most difficult part of fly fishing for you to master?
I don't know, I haven't mastered it yet.
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LadyFisher, Publisher of
FAOL
Trying to double haul with a hang over. Or without one for that matter.
" If a man is truly blessed, he returns home from fishing to the best catch of his life." Christopher Armour
Catching fish
Convincing my wife that I'm going to work with my waders and fly vest on.8T
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You had better learn to be a happy camper. You only get one try at this campground and it's a real short camping season.
First was reading the water and second was detecting the strike.
Tim Anderson
No one ever masters; they may come close, but never master !!!! Fly fishing is a continuous learning & growth process.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is ego filled & full of it. My advise for you if you ever come across someone like that, is to walk away very quickly !!!!!!
The fact that since I have only been ffing for 15 years, I am still not what I would consider a master. What was hardest thing for me to accept was moving to Washington State, from Alaska. The lack of salmon was hard to take, but having to actually pay attention to the insects was the hardest part to learn for me. In Alaska, there were three major hatches, salmon smolt in the spring, salmon eggs in the summer, and salmon flesh in the fall (generally speaking of course, there are more, but a glo bug, wooly bugger and flesh fly would catch you fish as long as the water was flowing). Sure there are bugs, but that is what bug spray was for! Not down here. Caddis, mayflies, stoneflies, midges, emergers, dries, nymphs, streamers, adult, cripples, the list seemed too much to take.
7 years later I have a better understanding of the insects, how to imitate them, and most importantly, when they are hatching, but I still have a long way to go. I guess that is the fun part, each day learning, becoming more and more competent.
Have fun learning, Jeff
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Tis my time on the water, in the mountains, and in my driftboat where I can see things as they really are.
Hey Mantis,
My whole life I have been able to get
information on whatever interests I had.
But for the first 40 years of my flyfishing
journey, the information was very hard to
come by. Growing up in the rural
Carolinas, I would have bet good money that
all flyrods had a #6 inscribed just above
the grip, and there were only two types of
reels available. Automatic and hand crank.
Walmart and Kmart were the major suppliers
of fly tackle. There were no shops around
and fly fishers were as rare as hens teeth.
Then I got my first computer. Shortly after, I found FAOL. I was hungry for info
and there was a feast at hand. It continues
today as I digest everything that comes
along having to do with fly fishing. The
neatest thing I've learned to date, that
some flyrods available by mail order have a
#3 just above the grip instead of the all
too common here in the South #6. What a
revelation that was.*G* Gill fishing has
taken on a life of it's own. I don't know
it all yet and probably never will. But I
have learned enough to increase my enjoyment
in the sport immeasurably. I have built
rods and tied flies that catch fish. I can
do so routinely now. I can put these flies
right where I think the fish wants to see
them. And I've been able to take my limited
knowledge and introduce others to the sport.
I currently have 3 new fly fishers that I'm
now teaching to tie standard flies. They
are catching fish and enjoying fly fishing.
Life in the Carolinas is better than ever.
Viva la 3 weights!*G* Warm regards, Jim
Okay, okay Mr.JML, LOL, you must be a politician to spin that into the literal meaning of 'master.' I meant master , as to overcome difficulties. Lets say proficient enough to catch a fish and smooth enough so nearby anglers didn't think all that splashing was you falling in...lol...
Somepart of fly fishing must have been harder than others to get "Proficient" at. For me it was tying blood knots...I still can't do it on the stream. I just buy made up or tapered leaders and just add needed tippet with DSK. Crippled up fingers run in the family.
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