"Dave LaCourse" wrote


Or, you can do as I have on a couple of occasions: fish with a fly
that has its hook cut off at the bend.


I've done that, too, and now that I fish all barbless I very often give fish
slack so they can 'release themselves'


Or, you can fish with the smallest dry fly you have and see how you
do. Twenty inch fish on a #20, 22 on a #22, etc.


I've done the 20/20 thing ( dry fly ) but never
managed a 22/22 although it's clearly possible on the
right water, especially using small nymphs .... an honest 24/24 would
impress the hell out of me ...anywhere, any flyG




Lost of things you can do to amuse yourself if you become bored.
Happy to say boredom has never been a bother to me while fly fishing.



Well "bored" may have been an overstatement, but I have left such fishing
sooner than I would have left if it had been more challenging and
gone elsewhere the next day.