Bass that is one of the most honest posts i have read in a long time. Truth is where there is steelhead there is passion. This is good but at times it turns into self righteous indignation. I personally have run into this dilemma. I went steelhead fishing up on the trinity with two swing only advocates. We all swung for two days for a big zero. Now I love to cast my switch and spey rods and will do just that with no regret that i didn't catch anything. But after two days i realized that i was not being true to myself and was continuing to swing because of peer pressure. On the last night i went out and went 3 for 5 getting down deep by this underwater bolder with spit shot then they would hammer it on the way up and across. Whatever technique gets me into the trance of the river, the expection of the take, I will be there.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~Henry David Thoreau
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