Jul 12, 2020
11:11:20am
11:11:20am
Little kids can fly fish. You just adjust what you have them do. When they’re really young they’re happy just reeling
after you’ve hooked the fish. The look at bugs with them. Then get ice cream. Don’t fish for too long and make sure they still want to be dishing when you leave.
Later they can see and set the hook (and then fight the fish like they’ve already practiced with you) but you may still need to cast to get the fly out far enough.
Finally, when they can cast sufficiently, they’ll be able to do it all on their own, but you might need to help with releasing.
My 8 y/o can do all those himself now, but needs help casting sometimes depending on how far it needs to go.
At 9 y/o my kids can really do it all on a stillwater.
Later they can see and set the hook (and then fight the fish like they’ve already practiced with you) but you may still need to cast to get the fly out far enough.
Finally, when they can cast sufficiently, they’ll be able to do it all on their own, but you might need to help with releasing.
My 8 y/o can do all those himself now, but needs help casting sometimes depending on how far it needs to go.
At 9 y/o my kids can really do it all on a stillwater.
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So your argument is to kill the fish, rather than to release it, because that’s somehow more ethical?
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I’m all for people keeping medium sized fish. It does pain me to see people keeping the huge trout though...
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7/12/20 9:41am
Interesting that you had a fish swallow a fly. I’ve never seen that. 99% of the time it’s on the outer jaw
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“Pain” and more specifically “suffering” exists in the mind (brain) and is only signaled from the nerve endings. Fish
7/12/20 11:40am