Well, I am late starting on this but I planned to do it so here goes. I fished with a spinning reel on and off - mostly off for 30 years. I could never get into it. When I was in Dallas I heard about a flycasting event put on by the local TU chapter. I had thought about flyfishing for a long time. My dad was killed when I was three but I have a picture of him flyfishing. So I purchased a Diawa fly rod and reel and attended with the hope of learning how to cast and anything else. The instructor came to me and started the process. He quickly abandoned the Diawa - muttering something like - that is like casting a broomstick. He let me use his rod and it was much better.
Shortly thereafter, I moved back to Utah. I managed to get a little better rod and was hooked because I loved being in the river and loved trying to solve the puzzle of what the fish were eating (other than worms). That was 19 years, 8 rods and a bunch of money ago. After I started flyfishing, I wanted to tie my own flies and started a year or two later. That was a lot of money ago as well. I glance at a bookshelve full of books and a series of drawers full of who knows what that I bought thinking someday I would need it. I actually was given a Herter's tying kit when I was about 8. It had everything in it so I made a a few flies. No one I knew flyfished. No one tied. Somewhere it disappeared. I joined this list from the beginning. I was on the Flyfish@ list. There were lots of nice people but the threads were mostly non flyfishing and there were hundreds of posts. When Byard left to do this one I came on as well. Right now I am a university administrator at a small college in Hawaii - BYU Hawaii. We target those from the Pacific Rim but have about half our students from the US. We are on the North Shore of Oahu so it is quiet and beautiful. I play lots of golf which is my second bad habit. My wife accepts the flyfishing and plays golf with me. I have 5 kids spread all over creation and seven grandkids. -- Mike Bliss Aloha from Hawaii -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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
