04-07-2014, 05:38 PM
I have had fly anglers tell me that so and so must not have been very good at fly fishing, because they used to fly fish and now they are fishing using a different method.
I have a cousin who fishes almost exclusively anchoring up and fishing with PowerBait. He wanted me to show him and his friend how to catch trout vertically jigging. I gladly went fishing with them and rigged them up with tubes tipped with cut bait. They caught a few fish, but it wasn't long before I noticed they were chucking PowerBait on one or both of their rods. I can't imagine how anyone would prefer to catch fish dead-sticking with PowerBait (or trolling) when they can be caught fishing with tubes, so I can imagine how fly anglers look at me and others and can't imagine why anyone would want to catch fish any other way than with a fly rod.
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I have a cousin who fishes almost exclusively anchoring up and fishing with PowerBait. He wanted me to show him and his friend how to catch trout vertically jigging. I gladly went fishing with them and rigged them up with tubes tipped with cut bait. They caught a few fish, but it wasn't long before I noticed they were chucking PowerBait on one or both of their rods. I can't imagine how anyone would prefer to catch fish dead-sticking with PowerBait (or trolling) when they can be caught fishing with tubes, so I can imagine how fly anglers look at me and others and can't imagine why anyone would want to catch fish any other way than with a fly rod.
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