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I recently was looking at a fly fishing book in the library.
I believe it was part of the trail side series of books.
The thing I read in this book was that fly fishing is a
inefficient way of catching relatively few fish. Now I
would not have known this if I had not read it in this book.
I do not know or have ever known another fly fisherman, so
I just did not know that fly fishing was a inefficient
method of catching fish. In all of my life I have only
seen two people fly fishing. One of them was here where
I live and the other one was chest deep in the Big Cedar
River in Iowa, and that was before I started fly fishing.
What sparked my interest in fly fishing was watching Fred
McMurray on television fly fishing for and catching grayling,
and being a curious sort of person I have tossed a many a bug
on the water just to see what was living there, and when a
fish took the bug I would think if I had a hook and a line
in that bug that fish would have been mine, so I seen the
potential for catching fish with a fly rod.
Here where I live nobody seems to care about fly fishing
and you can hardly find anything in the stores or the tackle
shops pertaining to fly fishing. Thirty years ago when I
was twenty two years old I found a fly rod in a bait store
and started fly fishing, if you could call it that. I found
the fly rod very difficult to handle, but with persistence
I learned how to handle it. I do remember someone telling
me about the roll cast, but other than that I was on my own.
Back in those days I was just a back-woods-country boy and
did not have much in the way of money, so hunting and fishing
helped put food on the table.
All I had was two popping bugs one to use and one for backup.
I can remember using the same fly the whole summer, but I put
fish on the table for pennies a pound with that fly rod. Now
I do know that ultra light spinning will out fish the fly
rod, but nets will out catch them all, and any system is
inefficient in the hands that does not know how to use them.
I have heard it said that 10 percent of the fishermen catch
90 percent of the fish. So I think knowing how to catch fish
is 90 percent of your success and the equipment you use is
only 10 percent.
Here is a example of my way of thinking. My wife is from
a third world country and knows how to forage for food.
She never had a sporting rod in her hands before I brought
her to the USA.. I taught her how to use a ultra light
spinning rod and artificial bait. She was amazed that
you could catch fish with such a thing. Now when we go
fishing fish tremble at the sound of her name!
I think fly fishing is the most enjoyable way there
is to catch fish. I still use that same fly rod to
this very day. I know there are a lot better rods
on the market today, and now could afford any fly
rod I so choose, but that rod holds a lot of memories
good and bad of days gone by, but that is another story.
Remember this, a bad day of fishing is better than
a good day at work. ~ Vaughn Pemberton
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