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fishing purists will not allow you to directly compare
their sport with regular old fishing. To them, it is as though basic
bait fishermen fill their coolers with cheap beer while fly fishermen
dangle a bottle of expensive wine in the river to cool alongside
the very fish they plan to catch.
This not to say that fly fishermen do not drink beer: they most
definitely do (generally beer in bottles, though. Not cans). Rather,
those that fly fish are (or at least see themselves as) slightly
more sophisticated.
When you go fly fishing, you do not bring a long a block of Velveeta
cheese to use as bait. You do not thread defenseless worms onto
your hooks. Rather, you might spend hours tying your own “bait,”
after checking and seeing what is hatching. You might spend hours
chatting with other fly fishing socialites about what is biting
and what flies are working best.
When you go fly fishing, you are not going to hop in a ruddy old
motor boat and head out to the middle of the lake. Rather, you are
going to pull out your pontoon (what a beautiful word!) and head
down the river. Or, depending on where you are, you may simply pull
on a pair of waders and wade out in the stream, becoming one with
the water.
And while regular old bait fishing is a rather passive sport, fly
fishing is completely active. Many consider it to be much more of
an actual “sport.” After all, when you are fly fishing,
you are constantly casting the rod. Bait fisherman simply cast their
rods once, set the rod aside, then sit down to empty out the cooler
of beer. If a fish bites, they stand up and reel her in.
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