One of my greatest passive aggressive pleasures is calling it a bobber when you talk to one of them.
Interesting article...Covid, fly fishing, and the the outdoors in general
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I fly fish a lot, but I never read forums, magazines, blogs, etc. on the topic. Facebook decided to post an ad selling fly rods with foam rather than cork grips. The comments were a shit show.
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Frack, stole my thunda.....
LuketheDog
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Yeah, but dudes have been slinging SxSs and over/unders over their shoulders for over a hundred years, that wasn't a fly fishing thing until about 5 years ago...
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And who is proud of a 10 inch whitey?
LuketheDog
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That's a grayling...
Yes. I think those last bullets have a lot of merit. But mostly in 'destination' locales where a higher-than-normal percentage of angler days are guided (see: the Madison, The 'A' on the Green, et al). Those efforts at communication and teamwork don't work for the close-in/easy access DIY locales (South Platte, Upper C, Gallatin, Truckee, et al)
The North Fork is close to town as well. It is the direction that DIY guys are worried that a lot of our rivers will go. $400-600/rod/day (guide required) to fish the stretch that flows through/near the ranch. You can fish the pond unguided if you spend the night (so, about half the above). Just on the mainstem of the Platte alone, you also have 2 other operations (Wigwam and Swayback) that concentrate the traffic on the public stretches.
I dislike complex/new regulations and restrictions as much as most, but Denver Metro and COS Metro have added about 1.2M people since 2000. The Platte is within an hour for most of them. The Upper C is within 2 hours. The level of current pressure - pandemic or no - is not sustainable, and outfitters have little sway on those places.
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This is 99% of my fishing and why I fish, and coincidentally why I am usually fishing all by myself. I dont catch alot but the places I explore is why I do it. Catch that fish that's never been caught or seen a fisherman's fly. With the internet these kinds of places are harder and harder to come by which is fine as long as those exploring clean up after themselves then by all means take in the beauty and enjoy yourself.
I found a couple places in the Frank church last summer that put my mood and mind about as close to heaven as it has ever been. I Been dreaming about going back ever since the last trip.
As far as the purist I just soon fish hook him than any trout. I fish in shorts and chacos and when i go places like silver creek for the brown drake hatch below sun valley dressed like that.....oh boy am I hated and looked at like I'm a leper.
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This is true. But nobody takes the snob trophy like a purist fly fisherman with a six figure plus bank account.
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And you know why you never run into the purist on a backcountry stream way back in some place on a semi crappy road? Because they don't want to drive their Ford raptor on that kind of road. 
Say hello to my financial advisor. Nice enough guy but we don't fish together.
Say hello to my financial advisor. Nice enough guy but we don't fish together.
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I used to be a fly snob, guided for a few years in Central Oregon. The last time I floated Warm Springs to Trout Creek on the Deschutes during the salmon fly hatch I vowed never again. It was like what I imagine fighting the Viet Cong must have been like—dudes popping out of the grass and surrounding you everywhere. This was five or six years ago, long before Covid.
When I first started fly fishing as a kid, my absolute love was to pick my way along small, high country creeks in the Eastern Sierras. Rarely saw another person or caught trout larger than 10 inches. Being 12 and alone on a little stream in the mountains, I felt like king of the world and believed that it could not get any better.
Then my focus became big fish. This, I feel, is where things got muddled for me. I was all-in on finding the biggest trout possible on a fly, experience and atmosphere be damned. On the Deschutes, I had a whole system worked out with timing my floats to get to the best steelhead runs before anybody else. I would set up extra tents to make spots that could have been shared look full. There was sort of a warfare mentality and consequently, a lot anxiety that got wrapped up in my fishing. Because of the crowds and my own selfish tendencies, I was greedy and gross.
Now that I have kids and I don’t fish even a small fraction of what I used to, I firmly believe that my 12 year old self had it right.
When I first started fly fishing as a kid, my absolute love was to pick my way along small, high country creeks in the Eastern Sierras. Rarely saw another person or caught trout larger than 10 inches. Being 12 and alone on a little stream in the mountains, I felt like king of the world and believed that it could not get any better.
Then my focus became big fish. This, I feel, is where things got muddled for me. I was all-in on finding the biggest trout possible on a fly, experience and atmosphere be damned. On the Deschutes, I had a whole system worked out with timing my floats to get to the best steelhead runs before anybody else. I would set up extra tents to make spots that could have been shared look full. There was sort of a warfare mentality and consequently, a lot anxiety that got wrapped up in my fishing. Because of the crowds and my own selfish tendencies, I was greedy and gross.
Now that I have kids and I don’t fish even a small fraction of what I used to, I firmly believe that my 12 year old self had it right.
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Several years back i got a call from Ed Rice. Ed was the founder of the I.S.E. shows and had fly-fished the world. 40 countries, 6 continents. He built the business model for Cindy Garrison to set up her Tigerfish enterprise in Africa. I'm sure he could hold his own with any of the big shots. He was on a quest to catch as many species as possible on fly tackle. He said he had caught a channel cat but with no witness, but had never caught a flathead or a blue. I told him if the right conditions occur and he could come on short notice I could get him on some channel cats but the others would just be dumb luck. He came when I called and caught 8 channels in 2 days on purple seal buggers. No snobbery just a guy who loved fishing. He caught a few crappie but he saw that it was easier to detect the light bite with UL spinning gear and quickly switched over. No c&r, he happily went home with a pile of fillets. I asked him what was the most important thing he had learned fishing the world. He said " you have to keep your worm in the water". Great guy.
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