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This is going to sound strange from a native Floridian but I’ve spent a grand total of two days fly fishing in saltwater in my entire life. Nobody in the family flyfished so I had to get into it later. In spite of this I probably have a dozen or more books on saltfly lying around my place. Fernandez, Samson, Morse, Kreh, Adams, Larmouth and Fordyce, yep got all those and a pile more. Might as well be prepared for the next chance I get right? Not having loads of flats fishing around Portland the books at least help me get into the mindset a bit.

The thing I’ve noticed is that when I dig deep enough I start to catch all sorts of contradictions among the experts. One guy likes the Homer Rhode knot, the next guy thinks its crap. Ask about say Bonefish flies for a certain destination and you’ll get 80 different answers. Who’s right?

The simple answer is both of them and neither of them.

I’m going through the same process with Steelhead fishing. Where I fish, the “classic” looking water from the books doesn’t seem to be where the fish live. The bright day bright fly, dark day dark fly rule kind of sounds like BS when 90% of my takes are on the same dark size 8 fly regardless of whether there’s 2ft of visibility or 10, July or September. The rules just don’t work out for me.

Before I went to NZ I had already been convinced that I couldn’t catch trout fishing blind and that at most I’d get two casts at a fish before it spooks. Well that was crap too, ask a Kiwi.

The point of this rambling is that we have to find our own way. Fish don’t follow our rules; think of them as slimy punk rockers. They do what the fuck they want and so should we if we want to catch them. These days if somebody tells me something isn’t going to work guess what I’m going to do?

Also…… fish loathe purple flies, trust me.

rObot out.

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Many thanks to Rob for another insightful and ridiculous FP experience. Have fun fishing those Intruders in Belize.

Take Care and Fish On,
Matt

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