So I have been thinking about fly fishing and how people don’t realize how intelligent a wild fish is.
There is an art to getting those buggers ( by buggers I mean trout rainbow and brown) on the end of your line.
You think that you look cool with the latest branded clothing and bright colours but to a fish you like the brightest Neon sign in a ghost town. They sit under the river bank watching you thinking OK so you think you going to catch me. Well I got some surprises for you and let’s see how patient you are and do you make a lot of noise?
I will check out the end of your line and if the end looks like my normal food you may have a chance or you can just sit there all day walking up and down the river but you not going home with me on the end of your line.
The trick is to blend in be like a panther walk slow, walk quietly and when your nymph look the deal like a may fly then we talking business hook and cook here we come.
Your clothes have got to be the environment, your cast has to hit the water through the trees like a graceful fly landing on top of the water in such a way the fish think it steak dinner time and I’m first in line. So brothers move out the way I’m getting it first.
Fish moves in, you have to strike it has to be hard otherwise the end of your line is going to be quiet. The fish say “You've got to catch me”.
Then the fun begins, who can hang on the longest, who can endure and did you put your rod together the right way today because I am a big boy and as my brother says “This bus is gonna give me a run for my money”.
So if you can master the casting of gracefully getting the line to hit the water making the fly on the end of your line and look like the real deal. Then if you can set your own rod up with the right line, reel and fly and you can dress like you going on an army mission. You manage perused the fish you’re the best steak dinner they want to have. Then you in for a day filled with thrill of hooking the bugger and letting him run you tired. You playing with the big boys now, this fishing is addictive and man it’s full of fun.
So next time you up for a challenge and wanting to spend some time with the boys or your kids, why not master the art of fly fishing.