There are those among us, content as bugs in a bakeshop, who fly fish the same waters for the same species year after year.
And there’s not a damned thing wrong with that.
There are others among the greater brotherhood of fly fishers who exhibit what in school children would be labelled as ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder); we get the itch to fish new water in new places for new (to us) species. (You could call it FFADD; I’d bet lunch tomorrow that FFADD can be every bit as disruptive as ADD – the kids are just bigger and have some cash to fritter away….)
An excited discussion of new fish and locations even prompted my lovely bride to recently remark that you can teach old dogs new tricks. She’s right.
It’s probably even easier today to learn about new fish, techniques, flies, locations and gear today than ever before. There’s more good fishy literature available today and more guys and gals with genuine expertise that you can reach out and touch yourself.
Here’s a great example – local guru Chester Allen has published a new tome Fly Fishing for Sea-Run Cutthroat and he’s doing a meet and greet / slide show to actually teach you something / book signing event this Sunday in the neighborhood (Gig Harbor Fly Shop, Sunday the 15th, 3 PM PDT). Even better – it’s free.
[In the interest of full disclosure, in all probability I’m about to join the team at the Gig Harbor Fly Shop (part time) helping them a bit with marketing and tech development. Yet another example of old dogs learning new tricks.]
