Quote Originally Posted by dr korn View Post
... If it was easy, why bother? Maybe it doesn't sound like it above but I love the hunt; tying new fly patterns, making difficult casts and precise presentations to big fish as-well-as learning new waters. I am looking forward to more trips.
EXACTLY. I was thinking yesterday, Doug, how it is the tough days that define us as fly anglers.

Now for a lot of folks, the hunt, as you describe it, is not the story, and that is great as long as they are having fun at the story they like, but for me, the hunt is what it is all about. When you've fished that new stream often enough that it is easy, it's time to move on, to do some more exploring, to find some new challenges. One of the neat things about freestones is that they change dramatically, and constantly, over the course of the year, and often year to year. New water in the same place.

John