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Posts: 5190 (08/06/08 08:31 PM) Host Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Tags : None Why I fly fish. This past weekend, my wife and I were invited to stay the night on my brother big 38' boat. It's got a nice state-room, head, and galley. He's got it moored in a slip about 10 miles from the coast of Connecticut but we're really up on the wide part of the Connecticut river. Well, as you might imagine, I'm an early riser and decided to take my bro's spingcasting gear for a bit of excercise at 0600. There were a lot of risers on the nice flat water. I didn't, however, have my fly gear. I've vowed that from now on I'll have "SHTF" fly outfit ready to go at a moments notice. I worked that spincasting gear for a good hour and nary a wiggle. I worked above and below with all the lures he had including all my original (many years ago) favorites like the jitterbug and a good selection of Mepps lures. Still nuttin. Yet I watched as 3-5 pound smallmount were whacking the bugs on the surface. That little incident reminded me about the reason I went to fly-fishing in the first place. You ALWAYS catch fish with a fly rod. You MAY catch it with a spin-casting setup. If I had had my little 5wt setup with a 10 pound tippit and some bugs, I'd have reeled in a number of beauties. Anyway, I just figured that I'd chime in here just to post up something to keep the forum moving. I love fly-fishing. We've FF'd from the far Northern Maine Woods after hiking for 1/2 day up to remote ponds after being dropped by a float plane to the rustic beauty of Wyoming and Montana's wild streams. We've even FF'd the tundra streams and rivers of wild Alaska, 400 miles from the Russian border. There is simply nothing that can compare to a 30pound Salmon on a 9wt leaping for all its worth in the late afternoon Alaskan sunlight. We really do enjoy that hobby and I'll never again play with spin casting gear. Right now I'm putting one setup in each car, period. I won't be denied again!! Rome A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
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Posts: 27 (08/06/08 10:03 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Lesson learned. It'll be salmon time here pretty soon as well. Hardly been out this summer much. Have a vacation comeing soon though and I'll make up for it. I've had more intrest in tying lately, rather than fishing. I use to just tie to be able to fish and started to get burned out on it. I took up tying full dressed salmon fly's a couple years a go, but now my boxes stay pretty thin. I was able to get out a couple times while stationed in Germany, but had other matters on my mind back then. Wish I'd have gotten out more while there. Other than that, pretty much stick to northern Michigan. Don

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