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

[poke flyfisher]

For me, about 99% of them fall into one of three cagtergories. 1) "Where do you fly-fish around here (i.e. Oklahoma)?" Or 2) "Yeah, by Grandpa used to like to catch bluegills too." Or my personal favorite 3) "Sounds like fun, but I fish for bass." It drives me nuts. Like one poster on this board likes to say, "If it swims and eats, it will eat a fly." When I tell them I'll catch as many different species of fish on a flly rod as they will on conventional gear and probably just as big, I don't think they believe me. (Thats why I take pictures of my fish lying next to my fly-rod) What are some comments you hear?

[ELHead]

"UH, i didn't know there were trout around here." Area-Northwest Alabama Sure are plenty of bass though. Not to mention sunfishes and crappie. I won't mention all the species I have caught on a fly-rod in my splashing waters.

[Uncle Jesse]

"UH, i didn't know there were trout around here." Area-Northwest Alabama Sure are plenty of bass though. Not to mention sunfishes and crappie. I won't mention all the species I have caught on a fly-rod in my splashing waters.

Tell them to go down to the tailwater on Smith Lake, Alabamaistan has trout now. But what can you do more fun than catch a smalljaw on a flyrod? I never have but I was lucky enough to catch a few on my ultra light spinning rod when I was a youngster in my 30's. Man it has been waaaaaaay too long since I been on Pickwick and Wilson Lakes.

[Ksmirk]

poke flyfisher good to hear another Okie lander on here! I'm down here in Louisiana and you should have heard these folks when I said I was going to fish for reds with a flyrod I got some real strange looks and a couple of "What's a flyrod"

So what part of the great state of Oklahoma ya from?

Later,

Kirk

[poke flyfisher]

Kirk - I live on a residential lake in Northwest Oklahoma City. Also fish Lake Hefner a lot, some farm ponds where my parents live in Payne County, and when I want to fish for trout, the Mountain Fork River in Southeastern Oklahoma.

[Mildred]

RE NYC Fishing, there's a great blog entry on the World Fishing Network's website: Top 10 Places to Catch a Fish in NYC - next time I'm in town, I may just have to bring my rod!


http://www.wfn.tv/blog/WFN/411733/

[Bass_Bug]

I've gotten similar comments as well because Central Ohio is certainly not a place often associated with fly fishing. Like many of you other warm water fly anglers it seems I've caught everything BUT trout. Several species of sunfish. warmouth bass, smallmouth, largemouth even a saugeye in one of the bigger state park lakes around here. I was at a small municipal pond a few weeks ago when I caught my first trout in 10 years with a flyrod. (ok it was a stocked DNR fish but still a nice trout). There were 2 kids, about 12 years old maybe, that came up to me and asked what kind of 'pole' I was using and then "what ya using for bait mister?" I swear it was like a re-incarnation of Opie Taylor! There was one guy in his 80's just out walking around the path that morning and stopped to watch for several minutes before politely interrupting (my less than graceful casting) to ask "I always wondered how a fly rod worked". We talked for about 20 minutes on the fishing history of this particular pond for the last 75 years.

Between the 2 kids, the chat with the old man and my first trout, I don't know which was the best part. I do know I never had such a great day fishing though.

[Bill-B'klyn]

try living in Brooklyn, New York. some are surprised that there are fish in the lakes!

[hungNtree]

try living in Brooklyn, New York. some are surprised that there are fish in the lakes!

There's fish in New York?!?

I'm sorry Bill, I couldn't resist. I'm always asked, "where do you go to do that?" and when I tell them the creeks around here I get asked, "You mean the fish around here will eat flies?" And one lady wanted to know why did I fish FOR flies? lol

[billhouk]

My favorite... "what's fly fishing?"