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Hey Y’all ?? I wanted to start a topic to show some of my fishing adventures in the future and hopefully to hear some of yours! Ive been fishing since I was a boy, my dad took me out with worms and a spinning rod. I’ve learned how to fish for trout and have loved it ever since. To me it is the most beautiful fish you can possibly catch out of my nearby creeks. Here we have brown, rainbow, and our state fish the brook trout, an absolute gem. I took a couple years off but now I’m really starting to get back into it. Fishing has always helped me through hard times - and to me is the best therapy I can find. Recently I started getting into using spinners, crank baits, and jerk baits. I was getting pretty successful at catching some good size fish on my jerk baits. Quickly I noticed that the hooks that come on these baits are terrible for the fish. Big trebles with barbs are not good for trout. I mainly catch and release so my main concern is preserving the resources for the future generations. I started looking into barbless hooks and eventually I rigged all my jerk baits/spinners with barbless single hooks. It is far more ethical for the fish and possibly yourself if you happen to hook yourself you don’t have that chance of getting a barb in you. Not to mention releasing the fish is often a breeze and don’t need pliers much. Fast forward a little bit to a couple months ago. I was at one of my fishing holes, it was a cool 73 degrees. I had never caught a fish out of here but it was the perfect habitat for a trout. I threw every bait I had into this hole and came up with nothing. While I was fishing this hole the trout were rising and feeding off of insects on the top jumping out of the water. But I couldn’t get a bite! This had me hot ? I had always heard of fly fishing but it always seemed intimidating to me. My buddy at work is a pretty good fly fisherman and that’s all he does is fly fish. So I get home, do some research. A trouts main diet consists of insects so it only made sense for me to start looking into fly fishing. I started doing youtube searches. These guys were amazing! I could only hope to be as good as some of those guys. Started looking into fly rods - man are they expensive. There is a lot more to fly fishing than spin fishing. I got a recommendation of a cheap(er) one - a TFO Nxt black label. Yesterday I pulled the plug and went and picked it up and a variety of flies. What a beauty it is. At 9’ this rod is huge for me. I’m used to my 5’10” spinning rod with the tip snapped off of it. This will be such a huge change for me. It feels like I have to learn everything all over again. It’s exciting but also intimidating kind of. Im actually really nervous about hitting the creek for my first time with it. I’d love to hear from anyone else that loves fishing like I do, has any stories to tell, or any fly fishers? Here’s some pretty rainbows and a brown from this year. Hopefully I can pull a brook before the season ends. I also hope to return to my hole and catch a fish where I couldn’t before. Ps. Sorry if the images look like shit I had to compress the shit out of them. ✌
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