05-18-2018, 01:58 PM
[quote Joe_Dizzy]I will second the recommendation on the Orvis Guide to Fly Fishing. A strong reference book with all the basics covered. Get it.
Next you need to identify what you've got (rod length, weight, action, line type, line weight, etc.) and whether it is suitable for the type of fishing you want to do.
Finally get out there and do it. If you get in gear now, you and your son can be casting to cruising fish off the dam at Trial Lake in the Uintas in less than a month.
Guides are expensive and will imprint bad habits on a beginner. Fly fishing is not overly difficult, but it does take a degree of dedication and once it takes hold you'll spend the rest of your life trying to master it.[/quote]
I think I can safely say I have not imprinted bad habits on a beginner. I am an Orvis trained fly fishing instructor that started fly fishing in 1970 and have been fly fishing ever since. I trained under Rosenbauer himself, and was mentored by Francis Betters of Ausable River fame. I taught at the Ausable River fly fishing school for Orvis and am a charter signing member of the NYSOGA with degrees in F&W management and wilderness recreation leadership.
I have lived in Utah for 28 years and have fly fished about every fish in the state. I currently guide for the St Regis Hotel in Park City.
Yes guides are expensive, well trained professionals are...about the only bad habit this guide will teach you is that catching fish on a fly is easy.
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Next you need to identify what you've got (rod length, weight, action, line type, line weight, etc.) and whether it is suitable for the type of fishing you want to do.
Finally get out there and do it. If you get in gear now, you and your son can be casting to cruising fish off the dam at Trial Lake in the Uintas in less than a month.
Guides are expensive and will imprint bad habits on a beginner. Fly fishing is not overly difficult, but it does take a degree of dedication and once it takes hold you'll spend the rest of your life trying to master it.[/quote]
I think I can safely say I have not imprinted bad habits on a beginner. I am an Orvis trained fly fishing instructor that started fly fishing in 1970 and have been fly fishing ever since. I trained under Rosenbauer himself, and was mentored by Francis Betters of Ausable River fame. I taught at the Ausable River fly fishing school for Orvis and am a charter signing member of the NYSOGA with degrees in F&W management and wilderness recreation leadership.
I have lived in Utah for 28 years and have fly fished about every fish in the state. I currently guide for the St Regis Hotel in Park City.
Yes guides are expensive, well trained professionals are...about the only bad habit this guide will teach you is that catching fish on a fly is easy.
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