About Flylab
Fly fishing is often characterized as a singularly complex endeavor: subtle casting techniques, aquatic entomology, reading water, fly selection, fly presentation, mountains of gear, another PhD in terminal tackle…
Well, you get the idea, and we haven’t even discussed water and weather conditions.
To be fair, there is a healthy amount of truth to this “complexity” notion, because anglers are generally interacting with wild creatures in their native environments. There isn’t a ten-step, “how-to” rule book, and even if there was, you would rip it up tomorrow.
And yet, this sport is also enjoyed by pudding-smeared children and bumbling grandparents. We once saw the “smartest” tailwater trout in Colorado undone by a bag of white cheddar popcorn. Greg Keeler, the Montana poet and writer, became well known back in the 1990s for “tying” streamers out of duct tape, and, yes, they were effective.