Sounds well spent to me. I have one more pool cue than I currently have fly rods, but that will change as soon as I get to Park Falls, WIJ
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jimmy D. Moore Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 1:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [VFB] Re: Pool Shooter / fly casting Sounds like the experience of ill spent youth speaking. LOL JD ----- Original Message ----- From: Don Ordes <mailto:[email protected]> 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 <mailto:[email protected]> To: Virtual <mailto:[email protected]> Fly Box ; 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. 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