Willi wrote:

Although I know what fly fishing is for me, I sincerely don't know what
constitutes fly fishing for other people. However, for everyone, I
would think, there's got to be a place where "fly fishing" is no longer
fly fishing.

It's somewhere past using plastic beads and toothpicks. :-) And gummy
minnows.

I'm hard pressed to see bait fishing with a fly rod as fly
fishing even if you "manipulate the line."

I like Chas's definition (if you want to call it a definition). On the
rare occasions that I've used bait with a fly rod, I felt like I was
flyfishing. I'll only use natural bait, of course. No Power Bait or
bottled salmon eggs. That would be unethical. :-)

The last time I used bait was at the San Juan, at the Cottonwood
Campground, where some local bait fishermen gave me some garlic cheese.
It worked. I think they got a bigger thrill out of it than I did.

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