04-14-2007, 04:14 AM
Because it take skill. Throwing a worm into a hole or dragging a lure through a hole is nothing. Cast, reel, cast, reel. The lure or bait does the work for you. Fish will move quite a ways to get bait, and the flash or a lure, the rattle, or the embedded smell brings them in. You really don't have to know about the fish, the river, the ecosystem, how fish feed, what they eat, what's hatching.
The grace it takes to cast, to lay out the line and get it where you want, the constant mending to make the fly look right. Not just cast and reel. Anyone can cast and reel.
Most people don't make their own lures. Sure they can dig bait, but any dirt pile will yield a worm or catch a grasshopper. But to take a mess or fur and feathers and craft it into something a fish wants takes some skill. Besides (yes I am biased) I think a well tied fly look much better than metal, plastic and rubber.
It's an art, not a sport and with art you have to suffer for it, but the rewards are huge.
That's why I fly fish.
katghoti
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The grace it takes to cast, to lay out the line and get it where you want, the constant mending to make the fly look right. Not just cast and reel. Anyone can cast and reel.
Most people don't make their own lures. Sure they can dig bait, but any dirt pile will yield a worm or catch a grasshopper. But to take a mess or fur and feathers and craft it into something a fish wants takes some skill. Besides (yes I am biased) I think a well tied fly look much better than metal, plastic and rubber.
It's an art, not a sport and with art you have to suffer for it, but the rewards are huge.
That's why I fly fish.
katghoti
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