[STITCH]

Well of course!!! I love bass fishin with them. Not for big ones but just for some 1 or 2 pounders. Such a great fight!!

[texnmidwest]

I was fly fishing when fly fishing wasn't cool! Got my first fly rod when I was 8. Bought it with trading stamps. Anybody remember them?! Finally lost the rod in a move a few years back. Love to fly fish. even a small one fights huge on a 6wt fly rod.

[.22hustler]

Too bad Irish. Missing alot of good eating!!! But that snake skin scared the bee-jeepers out of me. I was going to come down under to do a fish, but I'm staying here!!LOL

[irish murphy]

Where is your sense of adventure?They are only snakes.Most of the time they just want to go away from you.Its just hard sometimes when fishing or hunting when you are being quiet.They dont know you are there until you nearly step on them.

[Magnumsrule]

Ive always wanted to learn how. I tie flys and such but use them when trolling. Usually get a good haul. So far tying seems to be fairly fun once you get all the materials. Wait did i just say ALL the materials? I mean enough to do a couple....

[Col. Angus]

Been fly fishing for 4 years now. Wife bought me one for my B-day in 2004. Have had a blast. Been fresh and saltwater fishing. Love the salt tho.

[Beaker]

There's a bit of Flyfishing around here :-)

[sc928porsche]

I love to fly fish...couldn't pay me enough to work that hard but as long as its outdoors and I don't HAVE to do it, count me in.

[squirrelblaster]

never done itbut would love to learn.

[mitch_mckee]

Quote:       Originally Posted by Dookiebutt

Do any of you fly fish? I know some are passionate about it. Me, I would fish anyway I had to . . . spincast, bait, fly, telephone pole, whatever. I have been fly fishing for about 30 years thanks to my dad's friend. I even tie my own flies. I'll be salmon fishing next month in Michigan with a fly rod. What about you guys?

I tried but couldn't find hooks small enough to catch flies.

[Dookiebutt]

I'll see you guys next week with a report on my Georgia trip.

[cordell]

Hello all,
I have been attempting to fly fish for about 5 years now and enjoy it immensely. HOWEVER in some of the ponds I fish in there are (and I have caught on crank bait) 11lb bass and once in a while I will tempt one of these lunkers into taking a Bett's Bream Madness (size 8 spider) and you are reloading your auto reel!!!!!

But when it comes to bream, shell crackers (red eared sunfish) small bass etc, there isn't anything better than a fly rod. Good fishing and God bless. cordell

Beaker,
Great job on that fly!!!!!!!!!! cordell

[LiveToShoot]

Cordell,
Thanks for making a post to this older thread...for reminding me that fishing is one of my "other" hobbies.

Last weekend and again yesterday my wife and I were talking about fishing again...so, we'll hopefully get out on nearby streams, rivers and lakes to do a little fishing...just as soon as spring run off ends, water ways return back to normal levels and water clears. It's high water and chocolate milk right now.

[cordell]

Hello LiveToShoot,
Yes in our quest for that 1/4 MOA load and the never ending quest for bigger and better game, we forget the pure fun and relaxation of fishing!!

We are located in southern Virginia and although it has been hot as hades the fishing has been good in the ponds. I normally use baitcast reels and crank baits or worms but when I want to hit the ponds 1/2 hour before daylight and just enjoy Gods work I take a fly rod .

My first love is guns, followed closely by hunting/shooting, and the older I get the closer I get to moving fishing up with hunting/shooting. How close to the Canadian border are you? --------- Hope the water clears up for you soon, and Momma doesn't out fish you too often. Take care and God bless. cordell P.S. Have you been across the BIG pond to hunt???? cordell

[LiveToShoot]

Cordell,
I'm located near the Idaho/Wyoming boarder, about 75 miles south of Yellowstone National Park.

This weekend we drove east into the mountains to go shooting, instead of west to the high plains desert area. We were way up in the woods, high atop a mountain that overlooked this beautiful part of God's creation. It was breath taking to look out at all the beauty spring offers in this area. Wild chokecherry trees are in full bloom, and there were hundreds of them around us. Wheat fields are sprouting up nicely.

Then, we mused about how nice it would be to have a cabin up there...until we realized there wasn't a close by water way for fishing...LOL.

Momma out fished me one year, sent me into a panic. I had to recapture and hold on to the title the following year...our first date was going fishing, at her suggestion.

Trips I've made over the Big Pond were not for wild game, but to help protect and promote our freedoms...I'm retired USAF. Maybe some day I'll be able to go for a game hunt...should I ever tire of hunting game here in the US.

Thanks for your good wishes for me and mine...and I hope the same for you and yours.

***************

Well...all this writing about fly fish really got to me.

My wife and I spent our Family Home Evening (weekly Monday night family activity) gathering up our fly fishing gear, bought a couple of items we were missing, headed to the river to see how things look, tried to find what bugs the fish are eating, and then headed back to the local fishing shop to pick up another fly rod. For Christmas, my wife and I bought each other new fly fishing rods/reels, and by mistake I bought my wife an 8' - 5 weight rod...which is too light for the rivers here. So, tonight I picked her up a better suited 8' 6" - 7 weight.

We're now set to go fly fishing after work tomorrow evening...and hopefully other evenings this week. We'll also take along a firearm or two, just in case an opportunity arises to do some shooting.

Thanks for the posts; encouraging us on to our other hobbies.

[SwedeSteve]

I love little rainbows on a 3 or 4 wt. I like sockeye, big dollies and pike on a 8 wt.

[tippmann7]

i have one mintutes experience, i left my catfish pole unattended and walked over to my friend, like 10ft away, and he was going to attempt to show me and then i turned around just in time to see my pole getting drug into the water

[SwedeSteve]

^ LOL tippman !! That happened to me once too.

[tippmann7]

lol its one of those wtf moments, i was more mad that it was a big enough fish to pull my pole in n i wasnt able to catch it than i was about losing my pole lol. and it just had to happen when there was like 6 people with me so i could just go home and pretend it didnt happen lol.

[Col. Angus]

HAH....well, actually hooked myself in the lower lip. No one was around to see it, good right? Except for the fact that your lower lip is too flimsy and fatty, so with the barb burried in there, I had noooo leverage to remove the hook myself. The nurse at the Dr. office asked " how did you do that?!?" I replied, " well, I was going out to start the lawnmower......yadork".