My sister gave me a fly-rod...

Hi folks;

For my 49th birthday, my sister gave me a Cortland "Fairplay" fly
fishing outfit, which included a VHS videotape I've been studying.

With a great deal of trial-and-error, I can now get a dry fly onto the
water, sometimes as much as 20 feet from where I stand, occasionally in
somewhere near the desired direction, unless there is so much as a blade
of grass anywhere behind me, which will voraciously do unto my fly as
Charlie Brown's kite-eating tree didst do...

I'd mention the effect of a gusty cross-wind as well, but I suspect you
all can guess what happened.

All foolishness aside for the moment, though, does anyone know of a
group, club, class, or whatever in south-central washington state that
might help me get past the beginner's learning curve?

At the moment, I'm thrashing about and looking silly while others reel
in a great flopping harvest of fish on power-bait and treble-hooks.


Karl S.