I suppose I cheat with my Silver Doctors, Ausable Wulffs and Royal
Coachmen because I have never seen a hatch of any of them. There are
more definitions of fly fishing than one can shake a rod at.
Match-the-hatch is certainly an honorable and now dominant form of fly
fishing, but I don't think it is the only one.

I once got into a heated argument at the old Muskie No-Kill since I
was using a rod with single foot guides. The other guy's contention was
that fly rods must only use snake guides and fishing with Hendrickson
dry flies, a standard DT line and leader, and a Pfleuger Medalist reel
could under no circumstances be construed as fly fishing if single foot
guides were used on the rod (for full disclosure I was using a 12 ft two
handed rod I built about 15 years ago on a lark (couldn't find a two
handed rod in the local stores in those days, and decided to check out a
12' rod and single foot guides for the first time) and it did look like
an odd duck to conventional fly guys not used to seeing those long rods.
When asked why it was not a fly rod, the only thing the complainer
could offer was the single foot guide thing). It was one of many times
I wished a CO had wandered by. (BTW, he was using a cone-head orange
muddler that I could have cast across the Delaware with my spinning
rod).

I think it is time to take the fly fishing definition to the US Supreme
Court for a definitive answer!


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