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If my only goal when FLY fishing was to catch as many fish as I can I might just dredge a run with 6 czech nymphs using a Tenkara FISHING rod.
As someone said, this Tenkara stuff would just take too much away from the FLY FISHING experience for me.
I gave up grannys cane pole and bobber 40-some years ago and ain't going back.
Ya'll enjoy though but PLEASE... don't include Tenkara as fly fishing. Even though they conveniently added a 'fly' for marketing to Americans, you might do better using Power Bait or just Super Glueing crickets on that 'furled' leader! :rolleyes:
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Jackster, I appreciate your feedback and experience, and I think you hit the nail on the head when you said, "...the FLY FISHING experience for me." That's how YOU see it. Great! Here's how I see it: to be standing in water that is brisk and gin clear, to feel the sun warming your face, to hear that symphonic sound of moving water, to smell the pines, to gracefully set up your loops and then artfully lay down your hand-tied fly in a pocket you just KNOW holds fish, to see the perfect dead drift, and then with a quick splash, watch as a bullet head rises up, takes the fly, and gives that wild and wooly tug--that's fly fishing for me. As you know, fly fishing includes infinitesimal amounts of equipment, myriads of techniques and traditions that date back hundreds, if not thousands, of years. It really doesn't matter whether or not you're double-hauling, stripping, spey-casting, dapping, or nymphing, whether you have shooting heads, furled leaders, or fluorocarbon tippet. IMO bottom line is, we get to see, feel, hear, and experience more than most people will ever know--the ART of fishing with a fly. We're in it together and that's awesome. Fish on.
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