How is it that I haven't run across this thread before?
Great pictures, everyone!
I grew up fishing - caught my first Coho salmon on my fifth birthday, and never looked back! When I was about 20, I picked up my first fly rod, and was "hooked".
Spent the last 25 years trying to get a handle on the art of the fly cast - ha ha!
I chose an area to live where theres some world class fishing at my door-step, very nearly year round - and spend a good part of every year walking rivers and floating on lakes.
Once upon a time, it was all about the catching - but that gradually changed for me, now I don't much care if my line tightens on an outing - as long as there was peace and quiet, no other folks around, perhaps a wildlife sighting or two - and a good buzz to enjoy - makes me a happy and balanced man.
These days I pretty much fish dry flies exclusively. Not because I'm any sort of elitist - but because seeing that dry fly disappear in a perfect head and tail rise that hardly disturbs the water around it is the real art of fly fishing for me. My part in it is very small - but that rise - thats what I see when I "go to my happy place".
Anyway - I hope you won't mind if I add a few photos to the thread.
Long ago, I stopped killing the fish I catch - except halibut - all halibut come home for the freezer - ha ha! But all the trout in the following photos were released.
Sometimes its just all about the sky-scapes.
Great pictures, everyone!
I grew up fishing - caught my first Coho salmon on my fifth birthday, and never looked back! When I was about 20, I picked up my first fly rod, and was "hooked".
Spent the last 25 years trying to get a handle on the art of the fly cast - ha ha!
I chose an area to live where theres some world class fishing at my door-step, very nearly year round - and spend a good part of every year walking rivers and floating on lakes.
Once upon a time, it was all about the catching - but that gradually changed for me, now I don't much care if my line tightens on an outing - as long as there was peace and quiet, no other folks around, perhaps a wildlife sighting or two - and a good buzz to enjoy - makes me a happy and balanced man.
These days I pretty much fish dry flies exclusively. Not because I'm any sort of elitist - but because seeing that dry fly disappear in a perfect head and tail rise that hardly disturbs the water around it is the real art of fly fishing for me. My part in it is very small - but that rise - thats what I see when I "go to my happy place".
Anyway - I hope you won't mind if I add a few photos to the thread.
Long ago, I stopped killing the fish I catch - except halibut - all halibut come home for the freezer - ha ha! But all the trout in the following photos were released.
Sometimes its just all about the sky-scapes.
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my biggest fish to date was a conger ell estimated to be 65 to 75 pounds caught from a charter boat in loo Cornwall and the fish that meant the most to me was a 9 pound 10 oz shore caught bass i had been trying to catch a double figure bass for over 20 years and she would of been well over that but was leaving the harbour after spawning so was not in good shape but measured 37 inches it was one of the greats moments of my life and still regularly brag about it like I am now lol tight lines
