Dan wrote:

However, I do take your point, which is, if I have understood you correctly,
that the key point is to get out and fish. I am working on that part of the
plan right now.

That's very close to my point, and I commend you on your purpose of mind.

More to the point I was trying to make is that flyfishermen, and
especially newbie flyfishermen, should avoid obsessing about gear,
unless, of course, their true avocation is to become gear whores.

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