Isn't this the truth! Fly fishing seems especially susceptible to intense and sometimes excessive focus being put on the gear and the cast. It's a kind of madness that I'm fully invested in. You get your first outfit. You catch a fish or two in spite of really not knowing much about gear or the cast or anything. That gets you reading more about the gear and the cast. Then you realize there's better gear and a better way to cast and fish. So you get new gear and work on your cast and presentation. You catch more fish and then you see by all the reading and investigating there are other fish to catch besides your bread and butter fish. But that takes different gear and maybe a different cast and some new skills. So you get some new different gear and work on the new skills. But then you read there are still more types of fish in different places or that your bread and butter fish can be caught with gear that is 25% lighter and creates tighter loops for those windy days. So you get that gear and start to hate your old gear which you end up peddling it off to some other schumck...

The moral of the story is to never ever take up fly fishing because it is a sure path to insanity.

A pleasureable insanity it is easy to overindulge with anything and with this sport it can be true with the thought that you need more rods reels and gear. But on the cast and the hookup I am almost insanely obsessed but more in the mind than in reality. Enjoy the sport and the exotic good luck.

Isn't this the truth! Fly fishing seems especially susceptible to intense and sometimes excessive focus being put on the gear and the cast. It's a kind of madness that I'm fully invested in. You get your first outfit. You catch a fish or two in spite of really not knowing much about gear or the cast or anything. That gets you reading more about the gear and the cast. Then you realize there's better gear and a better way to cast and fish. So you get new gear and work on your cast and presentation. You catch more fish and then you see by all the reading and investigating there are other fish to catch besides your bread and butter fish. But that takes different gear and maybe a different cast and some new skills. So you get some new different gear and work on the new skills. But then you read there are still more types of fish in different places or that your bread and butter fish can be caught with gear that is 25% lighter and creates tighter loops for those windy days. So you get that gear and start to hate your old gear which you end up peddling it off to some other schumck...

The moral of the story is to never ever take up fly fishing because it is a sure path to insanity.



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How far south? Rey Ramirez is in the Brownsville area. Is that anywhere near you? I worked with Rey a few years ago at one of the IFF events. Nice guy.

I am just N of Mercedes, the direct way is a little over 30 miles to Brownsville (40 X-way). I have to go through Brownsville to get out to Boca Chica to fish. I will PM you with info.