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  • Went to a fly fishing school

    4 4.71%
  • Took a guided trip

    1 1.18%
  • Friend/family member taught me

    24 28.24%
  • Self taught

    55 64.71%
  • Other

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    Quote Originally Posted by deathb4disco View Post
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    Bought a flyrod outfit and some flies/poppers and hit the bream/bass ponds. Had a ball too. Havent fly fished in many many years now.
    Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

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    I bought some poppin bugs and didnt like casting them on spinning tackle and a casting bubble so I bought a quantum fly reel out of the used counter and a 9' 5wt silstar el cheapo rod. I tied on a bug and practiced in the back yard. I got a handle on it real quick. I just remember thinking this flyline acts like a water hose. We all remember whipping a water hose around trying to get the kink out so water could flow. Thats how I learned to make the line go where I wanted it to go. Latter on I found out some of the stuff I did had names/roll cast. Im still not the greatest at it but give me a sponge spider and a poppin bug and I will catch the wizz out of some gills on a warm day. I love it when they are slurrpin bugs off the top, nothing funner than a flyrod in that situation. I also whack'em on a flyrod useing only a gulp maggot or power wiggler on a salmon egg hook. Tuff to beat when they are picky.

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    Started out whipping a popper on a cane pole for bass as a child . I taught school for 32 yrs . and offer to teach any one who wants to learn . usually we started off in a chair in the center of gym or a lawn chair outside . learning to feel the rod load up is easier taught without any wind . spend about an hour or so casting at paper plates at various lengths . then go to a lake . i run the boat to keep casting distance short to prove accuracy is more important than length of cast . have taught about 100 to cast and roll a fly . we also roll crickets with a real cork (tiny). this is a southern thing i think .
    Last edited by Eagle 1; 06-06-2012 at 11:28 AM.

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    A long time fishin' buddy picked it up while working in Illinois. Spent all his off time in Wisconsin fishin' for steelhead. Came
    back to Texas and gave me my first fly rod. I became addicted and got into tying and went to a tying class. After 15 years
    I finally gave most all of my materials away to a newbie. Kept just enough to tie a few once in a while. Got a large surplus of
    most everything I'd ever fish with. Tied some pom-poms that look like floating fish food and catch the fool out of some real
    nice channel cats in the neighbors pond. Still like to crappie fish once in a while with wooly-buggers and like to send out
    the little spiders to the bluegill with my 3 wt. Don't know if I'll ever use my St. Croix 7 wt. again or not, and don't use the
    5 wt. as much as I enjoy my 3 wt. Standing in my WS Ride 135 is still fun when the gills are hitting and the crappie are on
    the banks. Now, I fish more than my friend that taught me, but thats a whole different story.
    "Proud Member of Team Geezer"



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    Quote Originally Posted by Jigsoaker View Post
    Sitting on the shoulders of my second oldest brother. I was 7 years old then. Now 46!
    I think you should try that now. If possible.

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    I grew up with my grandpa fly fishing....by himself.
    He raised 4 boys and three girls. He went to Roaring River every spring for twe weeks to be by himself I guess. Always wanted to learn, but oh well. I got to bass fish with him a lot though.
    My wife and I have been trout fishing for many years, but I've always used spinning gear. Finally decided to take the plunge. Bought some decent gear, but never could master the cast.
    Finally hired a guide at on the lower Mountain Fork River in SE Okla. Told him that I didn't care if I ever caught a single trout, but wanted to learn the cast, and presentation.
    As soon as we hit the stream, a tremendous thunder storm hit that started getting the water muddy. We kept moving down stream, with him coaching. Caught a few on accident, but I learned from a professional. He was gruff, and not that patient, but when I handed him my gear, and told him I wanted to see him throw it, I was amazed. The problem was me and not my gear.

    At the end of the trip, I learned three times more than I ever thought I could. Still a little rough on the cast, as I don't get a lot of practice, but our twice a year trip to Lake Tanneycomo Mo. has turned into a 100% fly fishing trip for trout.

    Now I understand why folks like to fly fish.

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    About 50 years ago I was in Kmart with my dad and they had a barrel full of cheap fiberglass flyrods on sale . I somehow talked my dad into buying me one with the expectation , I would pay him back , probably by doing extra stuff around the house. With an allowance of only 25 cents a week , it would have taken me months to save up enough to buy it on my own . It may have been my birthday , I do remember it was summertime . A cheap single action reel , I think it was a Kmart brand , probably a Martin copy , and with a level line and I was ready .
    I checked out books at the school library about Flyfishing and casting . I watched every "Flying Fisherman " with Gadabout Gaddis episode I could on the old black and white tv we had back then .
    I remember tying flies using a " pair of pliers " with a rubberband wrapped around the jaws to keep them closed . Ugly looking flies ,tied with whatever materials I could come up with tied on Aberdeen hooks . Ugly as they were , they occasionally fooled a bluegill or two.
    I can remember one afternoon , we were fishing a small farm on a horse farm near Stone Mountain , Georgia , and my dad wanted to give the flyrod a try , throwing a popper . He was beating the water pretty good but once cast out and after a couple pops, a large bass sucked in . Now he had a problem , he had a four or five pound bass on a rod he had no idea how to get it in. He started backing up trying to drag the bass out of the pond . It didn't take long before the six pound test Kmart mono line homemade leader let go , with my dad almost falling backwards . I don't remember him asking to use the flyrod again , he said something about , if he'd hook that fish on his spinning rod , he'd gotten it in.
    But that day convinced me the flyrod was the greatest way to catch fish .
    So, since I've never had lessons , I'm going to say I was self taught . Kirby aka gillchaser
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    Well, Spanish Fly and other fly fishing shows got me interested, and i taught myself with a cheap 13 dollar fly rod from academy. it broke 2 days after i got it, so it got sent back. i then bought a pflueger starting kit for 65 bucks at BPS, and i still use it.

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    I grew up with a tributary to the West Branch of the Delware River within 100 yds of the back door. Dad gave me my first fly rod when I was 11 years old and I fished almost everyday. Caught a bunch of trout on about 3 wet fly patterns and a couple of old streamer flys. In fact caught more then than I did after trying to "match the hatch " with dry flys. After getting a drivers license I would fish the East Branch (married a young lady who lived next to that riiver) and the Beaverkill. Would by dry flies from Harry and Elsie Darby who would sell them to us for a quarter because we were local boys.

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