wOw....i can see that this sport can be as humbling as golf now.....i thought i was pretty efficient at casting...could get it out there pretty good etc. So we go to a small lake up in surrey..140/100th..somewhere around there...( i drive up from the states and p/u my bud who lives in delta)....on this past friday...and it was cold, rainy and blowing....my bud didn't want to go but i finally talked him into it...after we HAD to stop at mike and bills and gonefishin so he could bother the staff at both....well i found out why wind sucks..i was trying to cast into it..and did not do very well...i did manage to catch something though...actually a few....my cheek once, damn that really smarts....and a bunch of grass bass...busted off a sheeit load of fly's...i was very aggravated and didn't want to quit..but it just sucked out there and i finally relented...(ok, my buddy promised to teach me to tie flys if we left, so i did)....
i'm ok in the 20 yard range or so..but i couldn't get nothing out there at all...wind just kept blowing it back at me....very aggravated..but then that makes me want to do it even more...and after we left, i did learn to tie...tied four doc. sprats..something or others...i think they look really cool...though i'm told my proportions are not exact...F*** that, some bugs have bigger heads then others..
...i love winding that line on...much to my "teachers" schgrin....
So....i went out with visions of grandeur and got a good smack of reality...oh well...doesn't really matter as i'm getting sucked into the whirlpool of insanity that is fly fishing!!!...got a time set up for this weds. to meet up with a master flycaster instructor, who's gonna help get me on the right path...was given a book called " Gilly" to read and am browsing the shops for a decent vise...
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