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Posted in Fly Fishing Tips on the December 8, 2008
When I was a kid, I was absolutely fascinated by my dad fishing tackle box. It seemed to me that he had the most wonderful and wide-ranging fishing supplies you could imagine. With his fishing tackle he could trick any fish there was, or so I thought. He had various flies and lures, most of them hand-tied and custom made by him. No one bought their own fishing supply equipment in those days, except for the basics like fishing line. Every good fisherman made their own. It was a matter of pride as well as a matter of quality.
It appears like, with the fast evolution of fishing supplies, a lot of the sport has been taken out of it these days. I spent some time on a fishing trip with a good friend of mine, a fairly wealthy mal who owns his own motor yacht. He actually has a GPS fishfinder, a weather radar gear, and many other different sort of fancy equipment to find the schools of fish. Finding fish with him isn’t an art anymore. t is not a matter of instincts, of sport or luck. It simply is due to cold hard science - following the manual and letting the technology do the rest. For me, this is taking all the fun out of it.
I dicussed this with him, and he told me it was simply a matter of him owning more fancy fishing supplies than my dad did. He said that had they sold GPS fishfinders in fly fishing stores in my father’s time, everyone would have bought them. They wouldn’t have wasted time with hand tying their own fishing lures if they could right away identify where to get the fish. I however, see things in a different way.