Fly fishing is more of an art than a science
 

The more time we have spent fishing with incorrect or insufficient
knowledge, the more time you have spent developing the mindset that the
trout is a vastly superior, cunning and unpredictable adversary, and
results like mine become seemingly unattainable, and without such
knowledge becoming available, the practical reality remains precisely
that.
Normally it takes years of studying these fish, trial and error with
different fly patterns, different fishing techniques, different
innovative designs and methods with the right focus to get to a place
where you understand these creatures adequately for the outstanding
results we normally only see the Pro's achieving.
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