5 Things Every Warmwater Flyfisherman should do--Make it 10,

[poke flyfisher]

Robert, love your first two and they would be on my list as well. Ohio, also like your #1. We are so fortunate to be living in a country where everybody can enjoy fishing, not just the rich. Here's the rest of my top 10.

4. Teach someone to flyfish.
5. Buy a kick boat, you'll love it.
6. Pick up trash around the water left by others.
7. Leave farm gates the way you found them, open or closed.
8. When asking a land owner to fish his pond tell him you're strictly catch and release unless he's hungry for fish, then volunteer to provide him a meal of cleaned fresh fish direct from his pond. This approach has gotten me permission to fish some fantastic farm ponds throughout the years.
9. Browse through the flyfishing section of Ebay occasionally.
10. Read this board as least weekly, daily if you can.

[Gigmaster]

"No snobbery. A Walmart Rod is as welcome as a Sage. Pure joy for fly fishers (who even find a tolerance for spin fishers)."

All of my fly rods and reels are Scientific Anglers.......but I bought them all at Wal-Mart......on sale, even!

I got started in Fly-Fishing with a cheap, ugly South Bend outfit from Wal-Mart. But you know, I caught a ton of fish with that thing and have wonderful memories of using it. Bottom line, I guess, is that it's not the equipment that makes you a fly-fisher. It's your philosophy and attitude.

Semper Fi!

[poke flyfisher]

I'd say Gigmaster is heavily invested in Wal-Mart stock!!! But I do agree conceptually with much of what he says. Some of my favorite equipment was purchased at discount stores or close-out sales.

[Gigmaster]

Naw! I don't have any special affection for Wal-Mart over any other place. It's just that I live in a Willderness Area where I have to go about 30 miles to get anything, and Wal-Mart is about all there is around here, unless you want to drive all the way to Chattanooga, Tn. or closer to Atlanta. I even have to go 2 miles to get my mail. They don't deliver here. I have to go to the Post Office (a small one-room frame shack at the bottom of Grassy Mountain) to get mail.

It's great!

[poke flyfisher]

Gig, I'm green with envy. Sounds like heaven on earth.