Wow Charlie, what a thread.
My answer to your question... it's fishing. Just that. I don't go fly-fishing on a weekend, I go fishing.
Hmm, that doesn't seem to cut it.
Let me try again.
Fly fishing, the long rod, the line, the leader, the fly. The cast. The drift.
The things that can go wrong on the drift.
The sight of a fish rising to a dry fly.
The explosion of a LMB on a bug.
The unexpected hard pull of a striper.
The electric jolt of a shad.
These are things that I just could not experience fishing any other way.
A carp sucking in my fly while mudding, I mean, it could just go on and on.
This style of fishing that we all have come to love is just that. A style of fishing. All the variants are ok for whomever wants to follow
them, but I'll do what I do thank you very much.
And you do what you do, and I'll take notes, because that's what I do.
Ed
Last edited by Ed Wahl; 05-22-2021 at 10:10 PM.
Elwood: It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses.
Jake: Hit it.
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