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Sitting at my tying bench yesterday and found myself wondering, “What is it about fly rods and double guns?”
There sure seems to be an affinity between them and the sports they are tools of.
Thoughts?
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It helps fill the time, you fish when you can't hunt and hunt when you can't fish. The tools you choose to use depends on what you enjoy.
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Never got to me. While I have loved upland hunting with a vintage double over an English Setter or two for sixty years, fishing to me is my five foot Shakespeare Ugly Stick, an ultra light spinning reel and a small pixie. While I wander around Kodiak Island that is all I use. Mostly looking for pan size Dolly Vardens, but Lots of Pink and Silver Salmon and a few Rainbows. Haven't fished in the lower 48 for nearly two decades.
The fact that fly fishermen require waters restricted to fly only fishing has always seemed very elitist to me!!
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No trout down here, but I'd guess I might have caught a million river redbellies with a light fly rod over the years. Mostly by roll-casting crickets. Nevertheless I'd rather fish an ultralight spinner rig over a fly rod. Just depends upon whether they're biting naturals or beetle-spins at the river phase I'm fishing...Geo
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Both are highly evolved tools used for food gathering... ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](http://i.imgur.com/r32Pe4ol.jpg) I used to have some photography of a circa 1890s Thomas Bland 20-bore Hammergun in it's original case, posed with some old Grangers and some Hardy reels but...just can't find it.
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You can add pipe-smoking to that.
“When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead” - John Greenleaf Whittier
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Then you might as well add lip and mouth cancer.
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