[puddlejockey]

First and foremost, I am deeply disturbed and offended by this thread. I know for a FACT that I've posted some pretty darned funny stuff over the past few years; and I resent the implication that somebody else is funnier;based on a thread that I can't even read!

( Why, that's like voting on something you didn't even read! Who does THAT?? )

Secondly, Rip, It's been my contention for awhile now that the problem with fly fishing and overcrowding isn't all the new blood entering the sport, it's the failure of the old folks to die off quickly enough!


Also, what's this junk about DH fish not being a challenge???


I find them to be an enigma, wrapped in a mystery, tucked into a box that smells like fish.
Some days, I can catch them on the bottom, on an egg and a woolly booger dropper.
BUT other days, it takes a woolly booger THEN the egg.
Finally, if that wasn't bad enough, Ive had days where I had to fish an Egg and an egg!
which is why I carry 4 boxes stuffed full of flies- to hide the egg patterns in my chest pocket.

Sadly, though, I don't think I'd get much joy out of sub 10" fish....even if they're wild. That's another reason to join my club:

F%^ the trout, Smallies Forever!

[Guffins Bay]

I dont know if Im young blood or old school. For one, I must be young blood, because Ive only been fly-fishing about 20 times total. (about 5 times a year for the last 4 years) But then again I am old school in everything else that I do.

But enough of that, I do love fly fishing for trout. I dont have any friends that fly fish, so Ive learned everything (which probably isnt much) from the internet. I have a lot of friends and family that bait/spinreel fish however.

I became frustrated at one point with fly fishing (wind knots, tangled up, no fish, no action on the water, etc.) and was wondering why I go through all the trouble of preparing for hours the night before, driving 2 to 4 hours to the stream or river just to get skunked and not catch anything! Ive caught hundreds of fish in my life of all species, but fly fishing, which I really respected without knowing much about it, was extremely difficult to me and still is. Not able to afford a guide, this forum has been extremely helpful to me. I didnt even know about this board until about a year ago, and have learned so much more since finding the forum.

So, old school, young blood, Im both I guess but I own 1 fly rod and I look forward to everytime I get to hit the water and land a beautiful cold water trout, and I am thankful for this forum and the people on it that have given info and advice.

[Bob Frapples]

I have been lucky enough to have three passions outside of my lovely wife.....The Grateful Dead, Wine and Fly fishing. Unfortunately all three of these activities attract strong opinions. If I were to substitute a few words here or there, like Pig, Brent, Keith and Donna....The thread would read much the same as a GD thread.

When I'm old and not able to stand in the water anymore, I'll miss ANY kind of water, with ANY kind of equipment and ANYone young or old who'll listen to me complain about how much more of a flyfisherman I am than all others.

[Loco_dingo]

Except for 6X and now 7X tippets, the changes in the last 20 years I've been fly fishing has just make it easier to fish but not to give a competitive advange to the people who go for the latest technology as what is happening in hunting with laser range finders, sabot round for the black power group, or 'techo-wienie' archery equipment. Knowledge is by far the most important fly fishing tool. Call me old school for the simple reason that I'm too cheap to buy the latest and greatest (and therefore costly) equipment.

[watkins]

Love fishing the Sandy Bottoms Hole on the Toccoa DH section w/ my cane rod, or my plastic rod, or even my glass rod because near by is a nice crapper. Some times fish w/ my hat turned backwards. Have the first cup of Java w/ Brandy but then revert to Bud. Drive to the water in a GMC PU. Most fishing shirts come from second hand shops. Elitest, nagh. Old school, nagh. Love the sport, yes. One gripe----no toilet paper in the crapper. TRW

[BlueRaiderFan]

At least the locals didn't set your crapper on fire like they did on the Elk here in Tennesseee. Now we have to go bear style.

[StoneflyJoe]

Originally Posted by Loco_dingo

Knowledge is by far the most important fly fishing tool. Call me old school for the simple reason that I'm too cheap to buy the latest and greatest (and therefore costly) equipment.

Exactly, the fish don't care what kind of stuff you have.

[wilhelm]

Originally Posted by StoneflyJoe

Exactly, the fish don't care what kind of stuff you have.

What does old school or new school have do to with stuff? Isn't it attitude instead?

wilhelm

[StoneflyJoe]

It is an attitude, I was just agreeing with the quote. People both young and old are getting caught up in all the new technology that continues to "revolutionize" the sport. Do you we really need large arbor reels with offset disc drags for fish that don't typically exceed 12 inches? No. But I digress. Maybe I should have posted my likes and dislikes about being from the new school before jumping in eh?

Likes: Fly fishing films (they are really starting to show the fly fishing isn't just for people 30 and up anymore). Switch Rods, super hair, sleeping in the dirt, big furry streamers.

Dislikes: Orvis, trash, hole campers, dry fly purists (not really a dislike, but it just annoys me sometimes ).

Joe