On Apr 18, 5:24 am, "Wolfgang" wrote:
"Ed Wicks" wrote in message

...

Have not done fly fishing for many years. Never fished for trout. Have
a chance to take either a float trip of several miles down a river or
fish a few thousand private feet of "trophy trout" river. Any reason to
take one over the other? Both trips guided. Thanks. Ed

Fishing from a moving boat severely limits opportunities (not to mention the
physical possibility) for squatting on the bank while chewing on a piece of
grass and staring stupidly out across the water, and thus on the likelihood
of impressing anyone who might be watching (you may rest assured that the
guide WILL be watching) with your contemplative nature, your undisturbed
poise, and your willingness to read the water carefully before plunging
headlong into the raging torrent to traumatize every fish within a hundred
yards. In fishing from a moving boat, daring bits of technical wading skill
in an effort to reach just the right spot to **** up a simple cast to a hold
in which any self-respecting fish wouldn't be caught dead (and which could
have been reached from shore by a competent caster, anyway) are out of the
question. In fishing from a moving boat which will, for the most part,
remain at a more or less fixed and short distance from shore in a particular
run, there is no good reason to see just how far you can really chuck a bug
with this rig, and whether you can actually control 90 feet of line on a
long drift through conflicting currents.....or figure out what to do in the
unlikely event of a hookup. While fishing from a moving boat, you can't
pick up rocks near the bank to see what kind of creepy-crawlies reside on
their nether regions. You can't kick bits of dry-docked driftwood back out
into the current to see what happens to them. You can't skip stones on the
flat, smooth stretches. You can't drape yourself like some boneless
proto-reptilian ancestor over a smooth and sunny boulder and wait to see
whether a fish will come to take advantage of the perfect hold next to it.
You can't build a miniature wing-dam in the hope of creating a new channel
to which you can return at some unspecified date in the distant future and
catch fish whose lives would have been entirely different had you not
changed the course of history.

In short, in a moving drift boat, there's pretty much nothing to do but
fish......which you could have done with a lot less fuss and expense at your
neighborhood bluegill pond. What's the point?

Wolfgang

I had to check your address, I though it was going to be "Wolfgang@t-
online@de". glad to seen Cheny hasn't exported you.