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Thanks to my so-called friends, who have decided it would be amusing to take advantage of my OCD personality and have been hounding - HOUNDING I SAY - me to take up fly fishing, I have acquired a fly fishing package and even gone fly fishing once already. 2 hours on the water, total investment so far is $425.
That drunk internet shopping doesn't help!:yikes:
Hob he stood behind me I told him not to do that[emoji23][emoji23]
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You were talking to me at the time. You knew I was there and you hooked my scalp anyway !
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Sounds like you two had a great time together. LOL
Amusing thread. Imagining you guys flailing away and ducking, or NOT ducking, each others casts and reminds me of Grumpy Old Men! Haha!
As a newb to bug slapping, I got my feet wet a little last season with a few catches of coho and summer steel on my cheapy Okuma setup, but so far I've not been sucked in. I think it helps a lot to go look at the $700 + bug chucker sticks and high end reels. I just roll my eyes. LOL. Suckers! So far, I've managed to look at it as another tool or option to take along that might be the better producer that day. Having said that, I'm dusting off the 5/6 wt. for this weekends trip to Crane Prairie....which means I will invariably go buy at least a dozen new flies and most likely 2 of each in case the best producer gets broken OFF, leaders, strike indicators, etc......sigh. Here we go
My setup is just your basic combo from A'zon, but I have no fricken idear what flies to use or not. Most of my investment is sunk into the second pair of Korkers I bought. I have waders with neoprene socks, and a pair of Korkers sized appropriately, but this time, and in the summer, I'll be wearing dry pants that only have goretex socks, and even with wool socks underneath, they are way too large. I wanted something to wear with the dry pants or even with just a pair of thinner neoprene/waterproof socks in the summer.
Plus the handful of flies I bought, the rubber net, the little nipper tool that has all the extra features I'll never learn to use, and the books. I'm already scoping out a 7/8 weight rod for the possibility of steelheading. It will NOT be a $700 rod!