Help getting started.

Ken Fortenberry wrote:
Oh, be sure to get sunglasses for the both of you and never cast
a fly line with a hook attached without wearing them.

Probably the best advice thus far. In fact, I'd go so far as to delete
"with a hook attached".

Joe F.

"rb608" wrote in news:1164751918.821499.318990@
80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com:

Ken Fortenberry wrote:
Oh, be sure to get sunglasses for the both of you and never cast
a fly line with a hook attached without wearing them.

Probably the best advice thus far. In fact, I'd go so far as to delete
"with a hook attached".

Joe F.




If you keep deleting your attached hooks, you won't catch very many fish.
You certainly wouldn't have caught anything like the nice Steelie I
caught on Sunday!

In all seriousness, this can be a good forum, but it's nowhere near as
good as direct in person instruction.

Regardless of the approach you take, you'll eventually learn. If you
can't find a local organization offering a beginners course, the next
best fastest shortcut, would be to buy a functionable new rig in about a
4 or 5 weight line, and book yourself a guide on the nearest
"destination"-type stream you have. Be absolutely sure to tell the guide
before you book him that you have zero flyfishing experience, and that
you would like the outing to be an on-stream getting started lesson. If
the guide isn't interested in entertaining this, he'll let you know then.


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Scott
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