03-30-2011, 08:13 PM
It would be like a fly-tyer not using the commercial vise, but instead using an X-Acto knife, or tying a fly with his fingers without a vise. Would it then not be called Fly-Tying.
Well, in both cases, it is the "ACT" not the tool. If you are attaching feather, hair, synthetic, etc to a hook, you are indeed tying a fly. What you use to get this done is not part of the act, just how it is done.
Fishing bait is fishing bait...not fly fishing. The ACT of both is similar in all sorts of ways, but fish a FLY with any other equipment than a fly rod and line is "fishing a fly" not fly fishing. Use bait, even with a fly rod and line...it is bait fishing.
That is my take on it[
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When I was little we used a pole, a piece of maybe 10' of mono, a hook with either a work, or a lure......that wasn't Tenkara, that was just pole fishing with bait or a lure.
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Well, in both cases, it is the "ACT" not the tool. If you are attaching feather, hair, synthetic, etc to a hook, you are indeed tying a fly. What you use to get this done is not part of the act, just how it is done.
Fishing bait is fishing bait...not fly fishing. The ACT of both is similar in all sorts of ways, but fish a FLY with any other equipment than a fly rod and line is "fishing a fly" not fly fishing. Use bait, even with a fly rod and line...it is bait fishing.
That is my take on it[
]When I was little we used a pole, a piece of maybe 10' of mono, a hook with either a work, or a lure......that wasn't Tenkara, that was just pole fishing with bait or a lure.
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