Nicely put.
----- Original Message -----
From: Don Ordes
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY
JimmyD,
I like your QFTD.
'Casting well' can be thought of like using a pool cue to shoot pool. Cues
come in various weights and qualities, but your ability to shoot well and run
the table does not lie on the quality of the que. Of course, a better cue
makes for a more enjoyable shooting experience, but few beginners would notice
or could make use of the fine nuances of a high-end expensive cue. A better
cue can carry out the extreme english needed for some shots, but the knowledge
has to be there to start. A great shooter can run the table with a broom
stick, but prefers to shoot with a $1000 cue.
Fly-casting and fly-fishing is like that. With a little tutoring and some
basic skills and rules, anyone can play the game with that 'bar-rod'. But as
one's skills and fishing knowledge grow, better equipment is helpful and more
enjoyable in 'running the river'. Problem is, unlike pool balls, fish have
brains and programming and move around and turn on and off and swim away and...
One more note:
Just as a pool shooter has a breaking cue, a jumping cue, and a shooting cue
with spare tips, so a well-equipped flyfisher would be advisded. Using your
fine $700 5wt. to cast heavy weighted nymphs or split shot, risking getting the
rod dinged up by them (weak spot = break spot), is like doing that
vertical-jamb-masse-shot with your best shooting cue. Get a long 6 or 7 wt.
'cheap' rod with a fast action and proper line to lift and cast that weighted
wet bugger and haul up that lunker. And then swap to that fine 5wt for the
evening rise of size 22PMDs.
My 2 cents...
DonO
----- Original Message -----
From: Jimmy D. Moore
To: Virtual Fly Box ; Fly Fishing World ; Hill Coountry Fly Fishers
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 7:45 AM
Subject: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY
"I never met a fly rod that I didn't like. Now don't get me wrong.
Some fly rods don't like me, but my inability to cast them well is
my fault, not theirs." ©
Jimmy D. Moore
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