Top Signs the Fly-Fishing Apocalypse Is upon us!
1. Dick Vitale is hired to host Fly-Fishing Survivor: Big Horn River.
2. Hollywood Celebrities complete the acquisition of south western Montana, turn their eyes on Wyoming and Idaho.
3. THe national guide-to-client ratio finally reaches 1:1.
4.Bill Dance takes over the Walker's Cay Chronicles.
5. Two words: Designer breatheables.
6. Hordes of teenyboppers take up the sport, following the runaway success of MTV's "Pimp My Drift boat."
7. The Micro-Nano, the world's first subatomic fly rod, debuts at the FFR Show.
8. Lefty gets tangled in his own backcast, Dick Talleur loses the ability to dub, and Bill Tapply starts an article with the sentence "Well, dude, we were, like, you know, fishing this one time, and we, like, got totally bored and, like, whatever."
9. A River Runs through it becomes a Broadway musical starring Nathan Lane.
10. Cortland introduces the 666 series of fly lines.
Courtesy of American Angler, May 06'
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Would you rather fish for wild fish or a heavily stocked rod fee place? The trend I am seeing is private land is swallowing up most rivers in the west. The next step is a rod fee, twenty five to two hundred dollars per day or having to use a guide service you normally don’t use. With the high charges the property manager will stock property with large non native trout for there paying customers. We have all seen pictures or TV shows with the angler holding a thirty inch fat trout. This is my point, in the wild this is an extremely rare occurrences. Fish that are fed trout pellets grow to un-natural sizes. I would rather spend my precious angling time looking for native trout. The thrill from the perfect cast and drift to get a fish to strike is what this sport is about. A twenty six size midge pattern is a lot more fun to fish verses the San Juan worm or dog food fly. I bring this up after watching a TV show filmed in Idaho where the stream has been manicured with spill over pools that trap the stockers and create a Disney Land for the fisherman, not the fish. Where is the line drawn, what is fly fishing becoming, next will thee be tournaments similar to the Bass Masters? If so count me OUT
Posted by: lwren | May 19, 2006 11:29 AM