Fly Fishing?

MikeCh

MikeCh

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Anyone here a fly fisherman? Myself, I've been fly fishing for 35 or so years....tying my own flies for almost the same time frame. It's a great challenge to find fish in a river and a beautiful way to spend the day outdoors.

I'm getting jazzed up to hit the rivers here myself, hopefully sooner than later. The early runoff is starting now and the rivers are high and clear. Within the next few weeks they will be high and off-colored (first tea then chocolate milk in color) and then they will blow out and become un-fishable until mid June or even into July depending on snow pack in the high country. After the melt, the rivers will remain high and clear and become easier to fish. The water will slowly subside over the summer (freestone rivers, not damned ones which can fluctuate due to many factors), getting to their lowest levels typically in September. Trout always eat no matter the water conditions or temperature, so it's great fun to chase them around as they make their new holds in the river during it's changes.

I love it.

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Having moved to Portland, my long desire to learn to cast a fly is on my list to finally complete. Trade in my truck for jeep and head into the mountains around here. Lots & lots of rivers. I creek-fished in Montana as a boy, longing to get back into the woods.
 
Hi Jock and Bob,

If you've wanted to try it out, you certainly should!.....though it's another potential money pit to get into initially if you find its something that's appealing to you. :) And like golf or biking, you gotta work at it to get better.
 
Bobvin said:
Having moved to Portland, my long desire to learn to cast a fly is on my list to finally complete. Trade in my truck for jeep and head into the mountains around here. Lots & lots of rivers. I creek-fished in Montana as a boy, longing to get back into the woods.
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I got the jeep. Maybe we can learn together.
 
Indeed, the fishing is just an excuse, to find scenes like those ( then brag about the big one you pulled out!)
 
Nice, in the advertising panel to the left of the entries I see a new advertisement from "RodWrap" custom fishing grips.

I was driving through a little spot near Dillon Montana last year; saw a bunch of folks out learning to cast. Next to a rod shop making custom carbon fly rods. Custom carbon, I know all to well from bicycling, will probably turn a $200 rod into a $2000 rod real quick!
 
NorthStar said:
Fishing gear cost is nowhere near audio gear cost; unless you add a boat with it, and fuel. ...But then it ain't fly fishing no more.
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Not quite Bob, there are plenty of water craft that one can cast from while drifting down a river:

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Compared to say a pair of Alexia's, yes fly fishing is much less expensive. All in all, it ain't cheap though.
 
Funny countries you're living in!
Around here we don't fish flies, we just swat them with a folded newspaper.
 
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