10-08-2008, 02:31 PM
Thanks for the encouraging reply. I am not really that new to fishing, I fished when I was a kid and for a couple of years 20 years ago I tried to be a bass fisherman in Northern Cali. I have been fishing now for 2 or 3 years and it is frustrating when I go to the river and the boat fifty feet from my pontoon catches 2 or 3 fish and I get nothing and then when they move I go into the same spot using the same bait and...nothing.
There are a few places I go that I consistantly catch fish, Lacamas/Round Lake for bluegil and some crappie and out to Catapillar Island on the Mighty Columbia to catch small perch.
One thing that frustrates me is that I was in an on-line specie contest this spring on another site and these guys from the Mid-West are catching 10 different specie in a day in the Mississippi and St Criox and other places and I ended the contest with four specie total. I shifted gears and set my goal to catch ten specie before the summer was over and did not achieve my goal.
I guess I need to get out and spend more time on the water although some times it is tough to get up and out knowing the result will be the same.
The reason I am trying to get into fly fishing is that a guy I met on line gave me an outfit (pole, reel, line, case...the whole shebang) because he tried it and it was not for him so he thought he would give it to me and I could see if it was somthing I want to persue. He paid $300 for the set-up. It is an eight-foot four-weight pole.
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There are a few places I go that I consistantly catch fish, Lacamas/Round Lake for bluegil and some crappie and out to Catapillar Island on the Mighty Columbia to catch small perch.
One thing that frustrates me is that I was in an on-line specie contest this spring on another site and these guys from the Mid-West are catching 10 different specie in a day in the Mississippi and St Criox and other places and I ended the contest with four specie total. I shifted gears and set my goal to catch ten specie before the summer was over and did not achieve my goal.
I guess I need to get out and spend more time on the water although some times it is tough to get up and out knowing the result will be the same.
The reason I am trying to get into fly fishing is that a guy I met on line gave me an outfit (pole, reel, line, case...the whole shebang) because he tried it and it was not for him so he thought he would give it to me and I could see if it was somthing I want to persue. He paid $300 for the set-up. It is an eight-foot four-weight pole.
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