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Oh good lord! That darn movie came out during the years I fished annually with friends from Tulsa. We (at least some of us) fished below Bull Shoals for 27 straight years. We started by renting boats at the boy scout dock below the dam and doing a two day float and camp out. Later we focused on Rim Shoals (before the upgrade!). After that we tried Cotter camp ground and a variety of services and docks. Sportsmans was somewhere in there. As was Hurst. We used guides - Chissum, Jones, Eldon ?(a policeman by day?) I treasure those years and trips with friends. Out of all of that, two years remain seared in my memory ... the years after A River Runs Through It.

I recall floating down to Rim Shoals, by then a designated trophy area, and coming up on the shoals. The river was down and skinny. We wanted to float through. We were not even fishing as at that point only fly fishing was allowed. Standing in the middle of the channel was a walking advertisement from Orvis - Plaid shirt, canvas vest, Stetson hat, waders, willow creel basket (in  catch and release zone) small wooden net suitable for stockers, and flailing with a obviously brand new fly rod. I asked if he would allow us through in the only channel available. He used the "f" bomb and told us we should be banned from the river. I think maybe I lost control of the boat and maybe nudged him into the water.

After that we fished the Norfolk more often than not.

By the way, David Capps was the most professional guide I ever used over there other than Eldon.

[Al Agnew]

I made several abortive attempts at fly fishing way before the movie came out.  Tried smallmouth fishing with my dad's old glass rod and automatic reel several times.  Then a couple years before the movie, Mary and I were invited to fly fish for salmon on the Pere Marquette River after an art show in Michigan, with borrowed equipment, and both of us really liked it.  Still, I wasn't much interested in fishing for trout, period, so although I bought a couple Bass Pro rods and cheap reels, they didn't see much use.  It wasn't until 1996 that a new friend invited me to fish with him in Montana, that I bought a decent rod and started practicing.  It was a great trip, and soon I was buying more rods and reels, amassing flies, upgrading my waders and such.

So no, although I saw the movie, it had nothing to do with me getting into fly fishing.  It was strictly because a friend showed me how much fun it could be.

[joeD]

Fly fishing is about the "act " of fly fishing, which is wedded to the history of writers ,past and present , using millions of words describing and romancing and ascribing life lesson metaphors to :  fly fishing.

Not spin fishing with plastic and treble hooks. ( Unconducive to writerly writing).

In other words, catching fish is secondary to "how" one catches fish.

Apparently, one is an art, and the other, utilitarian expediency for the less refined.

Why else do we have to explain, justify, pontificate, reason, ignore,  and otherwise put in a separate category , fly fishing?

Its not special. It's just fishing . Which we love to do. 

 

[fishinwrench]

With fly-fishing there is so much to do.  There are line tapers to ponder, leaders to build, patterns to learn, materials to aquire, flys to tie, ect. So between outings we are busy doing fishing related things, thinking about how we'll approach it next time, and we are happy as a fag in a dick tree because we are always consumed with thoughts and projects in preparation for the upcoming trip.  Once we are astream there are currents to study, positioning with regards to our limitations to consider. Each technique requires a different style of rigging so we have to decide if it's worth it to re-rig and try something else or would we rather be lazy today and just keep on kicking rocks and swinging that bugger.  It's a thinking man's game. Most really good fly fishermen are heavy thinkers with busy minds.   Most times it is one man with one rod, one reel, and a variety of ways to use it.    Fly-fishing vs. gear fishing is like Chess vs. Checkers. Gun hunting vs. Bowhunting.  It's not spiritual, it's personal.   I do both and I love both.  My decision of whether to flyfish or gear fish isn't based on which is likely more effective under the circumstances, it based solely on how my life is going at the time and what kind of mood pattern I am in.  It has nothing to do with the ancient writings of Sparse Grey Hackle, Henry David Thoreau, or any of that other philosophical literary malarky.

The guys with 4k tied up in equipment just so they can go stand ankle deep at the hatchery outlets and drift glo-balls under a bobber aren't "fly fishermen", they are just guys with money who want to get away from their wives, and it just so happens that their wife likes golf so they have to find SOMETHING else to do.

There, how's that ?   🤗

[Mitch f]

Once trout get away from being a filter of small aquatic bugs drifting at current speed down the river, and start becoming predators seeking out a much bigger meal, then I start getting excited 😊.

 

[Hog Wally]

I have a buddy who builds rods for RL Winston rod co.  He came back home to stclair last year and he flyfished out of my boat. It was pretty cool but time consuming for a busy guy like myself. 

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8 hours ago, joeD said:

Fly fishing is about the "act " of fly fishing, which is wedded to the history of writers ,past and present , using millions of words describing and romancing and ascribing life lesson metaphors to :  fly fishing.

Not spin fishing with plastic and treble hooks. ( Unconducive to writerly writing).

In other words, catching fish is secondary to "how" one catches fish.

Apparently, one is an art, and the other, utilitarian expediency for the less refined.

Why else do we have to explain, justify, pontificate, reason, ignore,  and otherwise put in a separate category , fly fishing?

I disagree. 

 

8 hours ago, joeD said:

Its not special. It's just fishing . Which we love to do. 

I agree.

[ness]

On 9/25/2017 at 4:37 PM, Mitch f said:

Be honest guys, what was it that first lured you into being a fly fisherman?

We've already been over this, and I'm not gonna retype it...http://forums.ozarkanglers.com/topic/38609-how-did-you-get-started-flyfishing/?do=findComment&comment=277834

 

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So the short of it is...you say you fly fish but in reality you're just dreaming you can be like JoeD

[BilletHead]

54 minutes ago, ness said:

We've already been over this, and I'm not gonna retype it...http://forums.ozarkanglers.com/topic/38609-how-did-you-get-started-flyfishing/?do=findComment&comment=277834

 

     Oh Ness I am more leaning to the response by our old gone Member Wayne SW/MO,

BilletHead