brandon4455
fly rod,reel, line and artificial fly with or without a strike indicator =fly fishing
its all fishing and thats all that matters to me!!
Halibuthitman once said that, to him, fly fishing was like a marriage. He described it as not something than just slinging line and hand tied flies out to fish, but more like a deep love and devotion for the sport. An inner feeling about about the entire act of it. I added that fly fishing was like a religion. A belief that this was the true way of fishing, an enlightenment, and the desire to spread the Word to other fishermen.
My father took me to a local trout farm when I was barely four years old. The house rods were lengths of tapered bamboo with about 6ft. of mono tied to the end. A single hook supported a small piece of diced cheese and with that I hooked my very first trout. Noticing I had interest in it, my dad bought me my first glass rod and reel. It wasn't until my age was a double digit number when I began using a spinning reel and lures. After being away on an assignment in New Zealand, my dad returned with a cain fly rod he bought under the direction of his good friend Mick who was an avid New Zealand fly fisherman. I was fascinated.
In conclusion, to me, fly fishing is the quintessential way to catch the elusive trout. There is not a more fulfilling way a fishermen can a catch a fish than to delicately land a hand tied fly not more than a foot away from a natural then, the trout takes his fly.
I hope this was in line for the question.
When my kids were young I sat them on the back seat of our little 12' boat and let them pull my flies using their tiny spin rods. I called that fly fishing. They were fishing with a fly.
Randy
That being said i have used a spinning rod with a bubble bobber and a fly at the end of the leader and I have trolled flies also, and never thought of those times as fly fishing!
i hope nobody took this post as a "i dont like it when people use flies with spinning rods" thats not what it was about... i have absolutely no problem with that at all.
thank you all for contributing
Brandon