SDHflyfisher 0 Report post Posted January 6, 2005 from my experience fly fisherman and women have better ethics and are more curtious and willing to give out info than the other types of fisherman but skillfully like others have every type of fishing has its pros Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mcfly 0 Report post Posted January 6, 2005 Bait fishermen are by far MUCH smarter. The by a zebco rod 15$ some tackle 5$, a big ol'bobber and some bait 1$. Then they toss it in, sit down, relax and catch fish. Fly Fishermen buy a rod reel line and leader for 400$, a vest 40 - 100$, flies or tie their own alot a $, waders 100$+, and knot tools picks and pockets full of other dodads for another 100$. Then they head out to the stream, look around, check the area, select a fly relax and catch a fish. There are two kinds of fishermen good and bad. A good fisherman can catch a fish in the 1/2" puddle in your back yard with a fly, worm, or spinner. They are the ones who know whats going on in the water. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted January 6, 2005 LOL Mcfly, I need to introduce you to some baitfisherman here in the NW. You'd probably fall over in stickershock. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Trout 0 Report post Posted January 6, 2005 Like many I grew up a baitfisherman. As an outdoors kind of guy I find flyfishing to be more advatagoeus in the many local streams where I live. I dont think I am better. I like the process of tying your own fly, locating a good hole and casting to and hopefully catch that trout. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
4beader 0 Report post Posted January 6, 2005 I don't know about better, but I think fly fishermen have more fun. James Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mcfly 0 Report post Posted January 6, 2005 Well, there are bait fishermen and bait fishermen addicts. hehe.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lthrnk 0 Report post Posted January 7, 2005 Great thread. I think that even though I fish whatever gear is suitable at the time I prefer to fly fish because I feel more in to the whole thing and more involved while at the same time just zoning out. It's the whole Zen thing man. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bentflyrod 0 Report post Posted January 7, 2005 I don't know if fly fishing makes me a better fisherman, but it does make me a more relaxed fisherman. BFR Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flyfishtn 0 Report post Posted January 7, 2005 I think being a quallity fisherman or a better fisherman comes from working hard at your sport and understanding the water you fish and being able to read it whether you fly fish or not. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fly~by~night 0 Report post Posted January 7, 2005 i grew up spin casting/bait personally...i have always looked at fly fishing as a more advanced form of fishing. I know by saying "advanced" it sounds perhaps odd ( since the concept is still the same....cast and hope the fish is not smarter then you are). Too me there seems to be alot more involvement in it i guess I know i have learned MANY things i never knew since touching a fly rod and tying flys, but as far as it makeing one better then the other? nah if i was smart ...i would have kept it simple and stuck with cane pole and can-o-worms Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted January 7, 2005 QUOTE (mcfly @ Jan 6 2005, 03:11 PM) Bait fishermen are by far MUCH smarter. The by a zebco rod 15$ some tackle 5$, a big ol'bobber and some bait 1$. Then they toss it in, sit down, relax and catch fish. Fly Fishermen buy a rod reel line and leader for 400$, a vest 40 - 100$, flies or tie their own alot a $, waders 100$+, and knot tools picks and pockets full of other dodads for another 100$. Then they head out to the stream, look around, check the area, select a fly relax and catch a fish. There are two kinds of fishermen good and bad. A good fisherman can catch a fish in the 1/2" puddle in your back yard with a fly, worm, or spinner. They are the ones who know whats going on in the water. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Graham 0 Report post Posted January 7, 2005 Since I like to release most of my fish I feel better not gut hooking them with swallowed baited hooks. I'm sure there are times when a night crawler would be more productive than fly's as well as times when fly's do better than crawlers, kind of evens out. I know some very fine people who fish with bait, we all seem to have the fishing gene, and deep down we're all brothers. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joe Hard 0 Report post Posted January 10, 2005 QUOTE (skunked @ Jan 6 2005, 01:06 PM) I think at every spot aaround here where a road crosses a stream there are a couple flys in trees Not to mention power lines. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joe Hard 0 Report post Posted January 10, 2005 QUOTE (Steelheader69 @ Jan 6 2005, 04:19 PM) LOL Mcfly, I need to introduce you to some baitfisherman here in the NW. You'd probably fall over in stickershock. You dont want to come up here the boys are territorial about there spots they bait fish! Throwing flies,... your a God! It gives them something to watch, while they sit and wait and wait and wait. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wanderinwalker 0 Report post Posted January 11, 2005 Fishing is fishing to me. It has been said well already. Honestly, I could never think of sullying a fly rod by catching a *gasp* bass or destroying a trout by catching it with a spinning rod! (Actually, I think smallie fishing with a fly rod would be the ultimate in entertainment.) No matter what, to succeed in either form you have to be either good or lucky. You can throw the most expensive lure or fly you want; if it doesn't appeal to a hungry fish, forget it! I'd rather be good than lucky, because good is more consistent than luck in my experience. (My brother once got lucky and caught a 4lb largemouth, his only fish that day. I spent the same day catching and releasing school perch with my ultra-light spinner, fish he couldn't buy a bite from.) Great, I have thought about spinning and bass fishing. Time to get back to planning The Bass Rod... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites