Fly Fishing Axioms

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I’m putting together and introduction to fly fishing presentation and I want to start it out with a list of fly fishing axioms. This is what I’ve come up with so far:- Trout don?t live in ugly places(thanks Betty)

  • Trout will always be feeding 5 feet farther than you can cast
  • 90% of what a trout eats is 3/8 th’s of an inch long and brown
  • Just before your fly arrives in front of a large, feeding trout, a small fish will run out and grab your fly
  • No matter how many flies you have in your box, you won’t have the one that looks like what the trout are eating
  • When you finally hook that big fish; (1) your fly will break-off before you can land it, or (2) your nets not big enough
  • When you hook yourself with your fly it will be the one fly in your box you forgot to debarb
  • When you finally find the fly that’s catching fish that day, you only have one and you lose it
  • The biggest fish is in a place where you can’t get your fly to him
  • You will overpower your last false cast and your line will fall in a puddle in front of you
  • You will always hook more bushes and trees than trout
  • When you step in the water, the biggest trout you?ve seen all day will shoot out from under your foot
  • When you hook that large fish, your tippet will fail at the wind knot you just put in it
    Please feel free to add to the list as I’m sure you’ve got your own favorites
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When you lift your fly to make your next cast, that’s when the largest trout all day will make a rise at your fly from nowhere!

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When you finally find the exact rod you would like to have, it will cost more than you can afford.

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Hi Grizzly Wulff,

  • The fishing is great the day before I was there, or the day after I left
  • Winds in the east, the fish bite least, winds in the west, the fish bite best
  • Old fly fishermen never die, they just smell that way

Regards,

Gandolf

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When you make a cast to impress someone, you’ll hook your own ear.
Mike

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It’s not about the catching, unless you’re smelling the skunk.
Ed

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I think it came from Girach “Fly fishin’ ain’t about catchin’ fish”

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You should have been here yesterday. (oops, I see Gandolf already sorta covered that one)

Regards,
Scott

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A man who doesn’t fish will probably lie to you about something important.

If you don’t laugh at yourself, someone else will do it for you.