Black_Ghost
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Thick Tail
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Exactly why I love fly fishing the complexity never ends !
The learning is never over, there are no experts and you get to do it in beautiful environs 90% of the time with some solitude.
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oldman
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I don't really know why I like it. The cost is huge. Nothing is cheap. And flies,even if I never tied or bought another fly I would still have enough until I died.
I was changing flies from one box to another because the box like me is old and it fell apart. But I didn't relize that the box had so many flies in it.
I think that I like it because it seems that you meet a better class of people. And as you said the views are very nice,but you would see the same even if you were fishing any other way. I think that it is just that we evolved(sp) to another plane in the world of fishing.
Does this make any sense to you because I think that I'm just rambling
Jim
I had to edit this as I found out that my spelling sucks. I'm alright on small words but bigger one drive me  nuts.
Edited by oldman_1 (09/04/03 02:11 PM)
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BobK
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Well, I have to say a few words on the subject. I started as a 7 or 8 year old kid, learning to cast with a flyrod under the watchful eye of my great-uncle, Tim, a big, gruff WWI veteran with a heart of gold. Yeah, it was casting worms for trout, but he taught me how to read the water. We were close pals until he died at close to 90. I learned earlier how to fish a bait caster. (This was before spinning rods were available in this country - it was used in Europe and called "thread-line fishing".)
He thought I was something when I learned to flyfish. Yeah, I have all kinds of rods - bait casters, spinning rods, etc., but I just like to do things the hard way. To me, that means fly rods, deer with a muzzle loader, and birds with a muzzle loading shotgun. The old ones, not the new, modern types. (Except flyrods - I hate bamboo, even though I used to make 'em! Too slow an action.) I have used a bow when I was younger, and got deer and also flying pheasants with the bow.
Tying flies is fun, too, especially on a cold winter's night, while sipping a wee dram of your favorite "adult beverage". Like Fred Evans, I am usually partial to single malt.
I also enjoy the scenery, and the other fishing sportsmen I run into - all good guys, and nice people, for the most part. It can take you into some interesting, wild and unusual places, too. I'm getting too old to go "back in" too far anymore, but I just take my time and go where a lot of people don't, especially in the Adirondacks. Adventures? Well, I guess there have been a few, but we didn't consider them anything out of the ordinary.
I also have buddies that love to remember all of the good times - and some wild times - that we had in the process. When we are recalling some of our hunting and fishing trips, people around us always say, "You guys did WHAT???"
Well, we called it "fun" and considered it "normal".
But most of all, I have FUN and ENJOY IT! What more can a guy say?
BobK   
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Stew
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One word......tranquility
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I have to second tranquility. Tell my gear buddies I'm tossing the bug, and they opt to stay home (unless I'm using the boat lol)
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