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Message: <blockquote data-quote="C_Hallbert" data-source="post: 4259321" data-attributes="member: 42957">Thoughts on Fly Fishing: c.g. hallbert (05/04/2024)My Marine Corps buddy (Bill Hall) for over 50 years (now a retired architect who would probably deny my assertion) has been afflicted with the same peculiar affectation as those of you whom are also proponents of this forlorn obsession. He sequesters his collected flies and paraphernalia with the same reverence as if it was ****ography, and ties all sorts of ‘what he calls’ flies and secures them with bizarre, esoteric knots; then he violently thrashes lakes and streams all over North America from the PRC (People’s Republic of Canada) to the waters in the Gulf of Mexico. I ascribe his all of success to the desperate attempts of fish to make him stop beating the water’s surface. He ties flies of every size from crossing one’s palm to the invisible (I can’t make myself believe there’s actually hooks in them). He claims that the ‘no see um’ gnat sized flies actually catch trout, but I’m intelligent enough to know that hatchling minnows become snagged on these microscopic contraptions and subsequently fish of l incrementally increasing sizes get impaled on the barbed fins of the smaller fish that they are eating until he finally feels resistance on the line; then, he reels, or drags, them in. To believe a microscopic hook without a barb is capable of catching a fish of any significant size is delusional. Despite all of the contumeparapherrnalialious arrogance, obnoxious aires of superiority, extravagance and pomp and circumstance surrounding his peculiar vocation, there is one thing that I find to be the most annoying: he releases everything that he catches. By my standards, as well as the standards of every honest fisherman who has ever walked on this planet, serious fisherman eat what they catch. The indisputable exception to this doctrine applies only to Bass Fisherman who also release their catch; but this practice (of course) is related to the unknown fact that Bass are an ethereal, mystical species and  higher life form that should be praised and worshiped, but never harmed. If it was up to me, I would ban Fly Fishing, all together! Honestly, I believe that Gill Netting is a more honest occupation.</blockquote>

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