Hi Robert, dry fly fishing is the superior method of fishing for me, because it fits with what I enjoy doing the most. That has nothing to do with the skill, methods, or dress of myself or any other angler.

Hunting for rising fish, reading rise forms, selecting flies, presenting the fly, all played out in view on the surface for the most visceral feedback. I enjoy fishing and catching fish in plenty of other ways, but they don’t beat dry fly fishing.

A dry fly rides the boundary of the realm of water and that of air and bridges both. Fly fishing is magic because it gives us an opportunity to use tools to reach into the water and withdraw a fish into the air. When dry fly fishing works I am a happy magician.

I have never met a DFO angler who “feels superior to another because of the fly or lure they’ve chosen” or one “who will never see streamers, nymphs or wet flies as a legitimate offering”

Well Rick, I have. Hence the article. I also brought up that anglers of all types can have that attitude and it always sucks. I can’t hold your hand with every article and read the meaning and intentions into it. You just have to read what I actually wrote and not fill in the blanks with your preconceived notions about what you THINK I’ll write.

Chris didn’t miss the point at all. You did.

Cheers anyway.
Dom

Nice Tony, I’ve never fished out of the west but I’ll agree there are a lot of good visits here. In fact a few of my most memorable were also at 3$. One was a young couple from Europe who came to Montana to fish.

For sure

Good stuff, Mike.

Nice