Jayzer Loc: Indy

Fly-fishing is much more than just wanting to cast a long road, catching fewer fish. First of all, you get many more casts than spin fishing, casting over many more potential fish and habitat. You'd be surprised on the lager size of your catch on average due to the presentation of natural looking flies vs. imitation spinning lures. Fishing slowly from a peddle kayak is absolutely deadly for largemouth in June and July using chartreuse poppers.

Jayzer Loc: Indy

Some July largemouth fly-fishing from a peddle kayak in Indiana.

Fish Dancer Loc: Guntersville, Alabama

Hi jefe. Well you’ve probably got enough answers by now so I have a question for you. If you’re trolling with a fly rod what kind of rod holder are you using? Just curious.

Fish Dancer Loc: Guntersville, Alabama

You crack me up 😂. I really have to get down your way someday and go fishing with you.

Robert J Samples Loc: Round Rock, Texas

I am happy to have been backed up by Spirit! I expected to get slammed by the purist fly fishermen for my comments. But I spoke the truth, Quemosabe!

So, as long as you are enjoying yourself on the water, in my opinion, just go ahead and have a good time. It is not work, It is not a drill! It is supposed to be fun! Just Sayin...RJS

bapabear Loc: Blaine, Washington

Face the facts. If you are fishing with a fly, you are fly fishing. That being said, in the traditional sense, and according to IGFA and many game wardens, you are not fly fishing unless you are using the line weight to propel the fly. That technique is usually called fly casting. Keep in mind all the crap I have just written is full of loop holes and exceptions. Bottom line is that I don't give a **** as long as it is legal and fun.

Huntm22 Loc: Northern Utah. - West Haven

So true - legal is key factor on fly fishing only waters.

Kerry Hansen Loc: Bremerton, WA

Hey, if you want to be a purist, tie your flies on eye-less hooks like a fellow I knew once.

bapabear Loc: Blaine, Washington

Kerry, tying on an eyeless hook is no big deal now days with super glue, not that I have any reason too, except to satisfy my curiosity. It was easier to tie the fly than find an eyeless hook. It was even easier to donate it to a tree branch.

Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA

I just bought about 100 eyeless barbless hooks.

bapabear Loc: Blaine, Washington

Why? LOL

Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA

Small barbless hooks can be pricey and they're not that easy to come by. These were a good buy - you have to snell em rather than run the line thru em, but that's pretty easy. They fish just fine. I almost always fish barbless, rarely keep what I catch, and it makes it way easier to c&r successfully. And I fish mostly for trout with small hooks. That's why.

I might also add that so far this year I haven't injured a single fish.

fishinphil

i worked with a guy who was a fly fishing purist. He once really laid into us having a convo of our fishing trip, where my buddy had put a crawler under a clear float while using his flyrod set up.I cant repeat what happened next.

Captain Lahti Loc: Kennewick, WA

What defines fly fishing? The fly? The line? The rod? The reel? The flys used aren’t just dry flys. Wet flys were likely the first flys. Imitating nymphs, small fish, eggs, whatever can be found below the surface. The reel? The first fly fisherman didn’t use a reel. The line was attached to the tip of some sort of pole and the fly was swung into the water or flipped into the water to present it To the fish. In fact that technique is still used in parts of the world. And the line? Anything that could be formed into a line was used. Silk, linen, horse hair. More. So is it technique? The first fly fishermen presented a fly into the water and dragged it through. From a boat or shore. The fly was trolled either to the extent of the line or rod or the rower. Throwing a wooly bugger out and stripping it back is trolling. Dragging it behind a boat is trolling. Tossing a floating or sinking fly to a rising fish is a different technique that’s all. Not the first to be done, not the last to be done. Flys aren’t cast from a reel. They are presented by the manipulation of a pole. Flys aren’t just wet or dry. Thy are a lure dressed directly onto a hook.made of most any material that can be conceived of. Feathers, leathers, plastics, fibers, Clear and colored finishes.

fishinphil

dont forget before any pole with a line attached to it was a line attached to the hands of the one fishing, which is still widely used thru out the world.