I am very new to fly fishing and thanks to this group I have received some good tips on places to practice. I went out to Lake Needwood, but found a lot of weeds and not a lot of room for the casting. I tried Clopper Lake. It was a great place to practice with a lot of room, but the fish were not in the mood to play along.
I then ventured out to Tridelphia Reservoir. It is a great place with plenty of open spaces to work on my cast while giving my boys places to play. I was even able to catch a small mouth bass on a wooly bugger.
Today it got real, and I went out to Gunpowder River with Micah from Knee Deep. Micah was quite patient with my type A personality. His philosophy of fly fishing matched well with my personality. After working with me on my casts, showing me how to set up the rig, and catching a 2 inch brown trout, just to make sure the bar was set, it was my turn. After smacking around the line a bit and learning what it meant for my casting motion to come to a stop, I started getting the feel for my rod. And then, bam, I caught my first brown trout on my very on fly rod, in my own state. It was about 7", although about 2' in my mind. The Cheshire grin was ear to ear. I kept the smile on my face as we spent the next 3 hours working the river, as Micah showed me how to look for the edges of the riffles where the different flowing water paralleled. While i had a chance at a couple more fish as they lunged for my fly, I only brought in the one, but that was good enough. I had a great time, I learned way more than I ever could from the books, I enjoyed being out on the river at peace, and became thoroughly addicted.
Going back this weekend......
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