All right, congratulations Jim!! Very cool!!! Is this fun or what?!? Sounds like everyone had a blast. And trout are just the beginning. . . .
Darian, you are too funny, but yet, too accurate. The telephone booth part. . . .
I fondly recall my first fish on a fly. Read a book, acquired my Garcia Conolon fiberglass 7 wt. and a Pflueger Medalist 1494 and fly line at Longs Drugstore, read the book some more on how to cast, and headed to Lake Berryessa with two fly patterns I got at KMart: a few #14 Adams and some #16 Light Cahills. Fortunately, I didn't know anyone who fly fished so there was no one to tell me this wasn't going to work. I tossed the Adams out there for a while, as I taught myself how to cast. No rises, so I switched to the Light Cahills. Every few casts, I would make one that let the fly flutter to the water softly. Finally, a trout rose and took it. And another took it, and so on for the rest of spring. Never did go back to the Adams that year, ha. And I never felt the need to carry more than ONE pattern (life was SO simple then ) The Light Cahill has a special place for me because of this experience and, if I ever go back to a certain cove at Berryessa, it will once again be the fly I reach for first.
-- Mike
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