Watch a few YouTube videos on fly fishing, and you might think it's impossibly hard. It's not. You might get your money's worth if you take a $100 lesson in any town in the mountain west, but if you just wing it, you'll still have fun.
It's more expensive than buying an all-inclusive regular fishing pole with some lures. A respectable starter rod plus lines and flies will run you almost $200. Add a net, a cooler, and some rubber dungarees to keep you from freezing your butt off in the river, and it might be double that. But the actual act of fishing itself is pretty easy.
The rod's longer than a regular fishing pole, the reel's less intimidating, and the line is much thicker. The line is actually what counts for weight and helps you cast your fly.
Watch any video or movie about fly fishing and you'll see beautiful back-and-forth casts. That's (somewhat) doable right off the bat.
But what you're really aiming for is simple: Get that fly upriver and let him float down as though he's a real bug. Keep your thick line out of the water so the fish doesn't see what you're up to. Repeat when the fly is done floating freely.
There's a lot more to it, but anybody can float a fly down the river, with or without beautiful rhythmic casts. And no matter how graceful you are, you can appreciate the beauty of being out there and giving it a shot.
It's more expensive than buying an all-inclusive regular fishing pole with some lures. A respectable starter rod plus lines and flies will run you almost $200. Add a net, a cooler, and some rubber dungarees to keep you from freezing your butt off in the river, and it might be double that. But the actual act of fishing itself is pretty easy.
The rod's longer than a regular fishing pole, the reel's less intimidating, and the line is much thicker. The line is actually what counts for weight and helps you cast your fly.
But what you're really aiming for is simple: Get that fly upriver and let him float down as though he's a real bug. Keep your thick line out of the water so the fish doesn't see what you're up to. Repeat when the fly is done floating freely.
There's a lot more to it, but anybody can float a fly down the river, with or without beautiful rhythmic casts. And no matter how graceful you are, you can appreciate the beauty of being out there and giving it a shot.
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