Just choosing a venue for a first outing after many years I was looking on the Bewl Bridge website and see they now advertise ‘any method’ trout fishing. I am only interested in fly fishing, but wonder if this is the norm for all large reservoirs now?
Fishing is also the only sport where your grandma has a realistic chance of holding a world record, even if she has never been fishing before.
yesterday I caught 13 crucian carp In 2 hours from a lake that only contains about 20 of them (I stocked it). I have never caught one there on rod and line before yesterday, despite fishing there many times with similar tactics; and catching hundreds of fish in that time.......The odds of me doing that are infinitesimal. If I hadn’t had 2 witnesses I wouldnt believe myself!
Fly fishing is the way to go for a lot of people and the reason is is that it takes quite a bit of skill learning how to judge what a fish is eating, casting a fly is one thing, but knowing what to cast makes it a very interesting way to fish.
I've also done a lot of coarse and sea fishing, spinning included and by far the most interesting way is fly fishing, don't knock it until you've tried it.
I've got to the stage where I find it more rewarding to use just a point fly, or if its calm a buzzer on a dropper to help sink the line a bit.
Lure fishing is similar in so much as it's about choosing the right lure. There's such a vast array. Thats why I don't like the idea of fly fishing somewhere like Farmoor. It's the total opposite of the right lure to use for somewhere like that. If I were lure fishing there I'd probably start with a jig. You want to be able to cast a long way somewhere like that. On a river fly fishing seems better suited but for that I have floating crank lures. They're light so you can't cast them very far, but you can trot them downstream under foliage where fish are likely to be hiding and then manoeuvre the retrieve into promising looking areas. Last thing I'd reach for on a big lake though. Flies cast even less far so I'd always feel pointlessly handicapped. Being handicapped may take more skill. I bet using one of these would take even more skill (and save you quite a lot of money).
Would be pretty frustrating and annoying though. I wonder if fly fishing would hold appeal to so many people if it weren't for all the people handing out kudos for "dries" and so forth.
I was under the impression that he wanted to better himself, and he'd joined a fly fishing forum as he wanted to learn more on why we prefer to use tact and skill rather than brute force and ignorance to catch fish
It didn't cross my mind for one minute that he was just a troll
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