What's to like about flyfishing?????

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I love his books! Too bad he is gone, he was very talented.
If you like his books you should read Philip R. Craigs books set on Martha's Vineyard. They were friends, and even co wrote a book together. Their characters also showed up in each others books.
 
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Well I see you have flyfishing in your heart. I guess Florida would have somewhere to flyfish, your descriptions do make me feel like I'm missing something.
 
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I love his books! Too bad he is gone, he was very talented.
If you like his books you should read Philip R. Craigs books set on Martha's Vineyard. They were friends, and even co wrote a book together. Their characters also showed up in each others books.

I have quite a few books to go, and thanks for the suggestion-always need to find something to read!
 
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Hey, thanks I will take a look!

PS if your really interested Ill see if I can get a copy of his new book that just got published..Not sure if they have come out yet??
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I know Im a bad sister and he only lives 3 miles away!
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I started fly-fishing at 12 from watching my father and his friends--61 years ago. Since then I've fished--primarily dry flies for stream trout--all over the northeast and in Montana with the Catskill and eastern Adirondacks being my main streams--I live 40 minutes from the Beaverkill and upper Delaware. There is nothing like it. You're on your own trying to fool a fish into thinking a piece of feather on a hook is the real thing. Then you have to set the hook and play the fish into hand. You haven't lived until you've been up to your armpits in a fast flowing stream, lured up and hooked a 16-inch rainbow trout on a #16 dry-fly at the end of a 5X, 4lb. test tippet. It is a rush that will hook you for life. I've also taught a number of people to fly-fish--including passed HS students--and all are enthusiastic about it. (I've even written a book "Education of a Dry Fly-fisherman" about what I've learned.) http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_n...rds=education+of+a+dryfly+fisherman&x=12&y=18

The only thing I have against the current "Orvis" fly-fisherman is that they've made it too technical and high tech--all you need is a decent rod, matching line/reel, leader and an assortment of flies of the right size.
BTW, for a number of years in the 1990's I used to host an aol forum on fly fishing.
 
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My dad was, and my brother and nephew are avid fly fisherman. I think that for my brother it is about skill, knowing the water, the fish, the conditions and being outdoors in beautiful places. Anyone can dunk a worm in the water, but being able to perfectly set a fly where you see the fish rising, have it take the fly, and bring the fish in is almost magical for him. I think it takes fishing from banal prose to poetry. The last year he lived in Alaska he fished 270 days of that year. Fly fishing is definitely a passion for him.

Woodmort, you just gave me my avid fly fishing brother's birthday present...Thanks!
 
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