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Waving the Bug Wand / Re: How to write fly fishing posts
« Last post by Tinker on May 16, 2024, 05:19:54 AM »Don't be a Tinker and over-complicate it.
- Ninety-nine percent of what a trout eats is brown and 3/16th of an inch in size.*
- If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly.**
- Fish the early morning or the late evening hours when the predatory birds are less active and you'll find trout near the surface and in the shallows.
That's all you need to know.
You can't fault people who fish with fly rods for over-the-top literary flourishes. That's how we talk up here on Mt. Olympus and unlike me and that guy I used to fish with, many of us don't bother translating it for mere mortals.
* Lefty Kreh
** John Gierach
- Ninety-nine percent of what a trout eats is brown and 3/16th of an inch in size.*
- If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly.**
- Fish the early morning or the late evening hours when the predatory birds are less active and you'll find trout near the surface and in the shallows.
That's all you need to know.
You can't fault people who fish with fly rods for over-the-top literary flourishes. That's how we talk up here on Mt. Olympus and unlike me and that guy I used to fish with, many of us don't bother translating it for mere mortals.
* Lefty Kreh
** John Gierach
