THE ART OF FLYFISHING Challenging trout in their true natural element is, I maintain, among the richest sources of excitement to be found on earth. An entire lifetime can be spent at the same fishing waters without becoming completely skilled in the sport.
It may take years to discover the fish´s holding places, still longer to learn entomology, and yet more time to achieve a correct presentation of the fly. Once you have mastered, for instance, dry-fly and wet-fly and nymph fishing, you can start exploring how to tie flies with the right materials.
Then comes a refinement of casting techniques, until you take up building rods of split cane. To be sure, each of us decides how far, and in what sequence, to develop an interest in flyfishing; but the vast range of opportunities is the fascinating thing about it. And the trout remain as irresistibly tempting as they are elusive.
No matter how lucky one is in the art of fishing with a fly and fly-rod, how great a share of one´s life it commands, and whether or not one considers trout flyfishing to be the most important of one´s activities, it can be a comfort to realize that the alternatives would probably not have been half as much fun.
This insight is the driving force behind our attempts, day after day and year after year, to attract the next trout to take an artificial fly. It is also why we never lose hope of some day getting to know our dear friend, the trout."
Göran Cederberg
(from The Complete book of Trout Flyfishing)
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