Sounds like the experience of ill spent youth speaking. LOL JD
> ----- Original Message ----- > From: Don Ordes <mailto:[email protected]> > To: [email protected] <mailto:[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 <mailto:[email protected]> > To: Virtual Fly Box <mailto:[email protected]> ; Fly > Fishing World <mailto:[email protected]> ; Hill > Coountry Fly Fishers > <mailto:[email protected]> > 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 > >**************** ><((((((((º> ****************** >JIMMY D. MOORE, Amateur Radio Station WB5RHT >Moon Holler Misfits Fishing & Hunting Club, author >Past VP Guadalupe River Trout Unlimited, Member >TOWA, North Zone Fishing Editor Emeritus,Texas >Fish & Game Magazine, Scout Exec. BSA, Retired >Website - http://bigtroutman.tripod.com/index.html >***************** <º))))))))>< **************** > > > > > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the > "VFB Mail" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB > Mail" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" > group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -- **************** ><((((((((º> ****************** JIMMY D. MOORE, Amateur Radio Station WB5RHT Moon Holler Misfits Fishing & Hunting Club, author Past VP Guadalupe River Trout Unlimited, Member TOWA, North Zone Fishing Editor Emeritus,Texas Fish & Game Magazine, Scout Exec. BSA, Retired Website - http://bigtroutman.tripod.com/index.html ***************** <º))))))))>< **************** -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com
