wind knots with braid happens way more often. you might get one mono spinning reel frickup every other year. then again, any mono over 10lbs is stiff, and most mono brands are shit anyways. Trilene XL ftw. I use 2lb-8lb on my reels.
Dumb noobie question but... how do I know if I should choose flyfishing or regular fishing. Like what's the purpose of each one and what's better for me if my main goal is just to learn the basics of fishing and catch something to eat.
Non-flyfisher here, but flyfishing is mostly done to catch trout and fish like it in streams. Catching anything else requires jumping through gigantic hoops and using equipment and lure workarounds, and even though you undoubtedly will come across some fly fisherman who says pike and bass are a-OK as flyfishing species, most people will just tell you to buy a spinning reel and some lures. Also casting is more intuitive with a spinning reel.
Fly fishing is about wasting your time convincing fish they want to eat. You can see the fish you want. The fish can see your fly. The fish aren't hungry and don't want to eat. The fish are horny and want to cooooom then die. So you spend an hour trying to fish that eating one last fly is better then cooooooooming.
Regular fishing is about sitting around drinking and eating, waiting for the to eat your lure. You could be doing it from a dock, looking like an eye sore and making the place unsafe for swimming, or you could be doing it from a boat, looking like an eye sore and dumping out as much pollution as you can get away with.
yea others kind of touched on some stuff.. but if you like a more relaxed style of fishing and more still-water stuff like lakes and ponds, spinfishing might be better.. if you want to catch trout in fast fresh water, fly fishing is a really fun way to do it. The big difference really is that with spin fishing the weight is in the lure, and you can chuck it.. But fly fishing the "lure" is generally a light "fly" made of feathers.. so in order to send it where you want it, the weight is in the fly line and you throw the weight of the line instead and the fly rides along.
By having a shitload of loose line loops come off the spool at once, then they tangle. Can happen if the line has lots of memory, like with a stiff monofilament. But yeah, I don't think this happened to me after the age of 12.
easily avoidable by pulling the line taught after closing the bail each cast. and no it doesn't waste extra time, it becomes an automatic subconcious habit once you get used to doing it.
My da has bad anger issues and his hissy fits 9/10 ruin a good trip
sorry about that.. I was out fishing one day and a dad and his son, maybe 8 years old, start fishing right across from me.. Kid got the lure snagged under a bridge before dad could even crack a beer, dad got mad, kid started crying...
man it was sad hearing how the dad talked to the kid.
My da has bad anger issues and his hissy fits 9/10 ruin a good trip
>be me on fishing trip with my uncle when I was about 10 years old >catch a fish and start reeling it in >it's a big one and my tiny kid arms are having trouble fighting it >uncle is yelling directions, pull this, reel that, point the rod this way etc. >After a long fight I begin to raise the rod to get it in the net but it shakes itself loose and gets away >uncle becomes angry and starts yelling "NOW WHO'S FAULT WAS THAT" repeatedly >"m-mine" >tearfactory.jpg
Luckily that experience didn't taint fishing for me as a whole. I guess I just kinda forgot about it. My uncle is a cool guy but he has anger issues for sure. All water under the bridge now.
Why do so many fly fishers refuse to eat fish and look at you like you're a savage if you have a stringer of keepers?
I get putting back bycatch, but trout is good eating.
t. saltwatergay who recently got into flies after a move.
i know i fish a super pressured tailwater located in one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world.. and if everybody who went fishing on that river kept what they caught, there would unquestionably be nothing left in there.. but it's a destination fishery for people in a 4-state radius because of the regulations that keep the fish protected. A lot of the flyfishers who spend a lot of time on that type of fishery tend to be extremists when it comes to c&r... Really they're probably just mad because they used to be able to catch and keep hogs on their local river but now pollution and habitat destruction and water quality degradation and fishing pressure have made it impossible to catch those same caliber of fish.. so they scapegoat poachers and people who keep fish.. reality is more complicated
Thanks for explaining flyfishing to me, I really appreciate it. Seems like if you google this stuff everybody expects you to already know the basic "why's". Like for example my backroad mapbook mentioned a lake near me is good for "chironomid fishing". I google it and all I get is "here's extensive info on the lifecycle of bugs". Literally nothing about "wtf is it and why do I care". So yeah, thanks for the handholding, it really helps.
By not needing to.
t. knower
i simply don't let that happen to me
just cut it off and feed it to a duck or something.
why complicate things?
Twf no litter eating ducks at my fishing spots 🙁
I fish with a bow
Braid mainline and mono/fluoro leader. Doesn't birdsnest like this, you get the odd wind knot but just cut and join it and problems werent.
imagine not using braided line
also just fricking get good at fishing there is no excuse for this to happen to you past the age of 12
wind knots with braid happens way more often. you might get one mono spinning reel frickup every other year. then again, any mono over 10lbs is stiff, and most mono brands are shit anyways. Trilene XL ftw. I use 2lb-8lb on my reels.
>6-8lb
we're playing different games m8
flyfishing doesnt have this problem
also
>she cant into braided line
flyfishing has plenty of it's own problems
also, frick off we're full(fly fishing)
Dumb noobie question but... how do I know if I should choose flyfishing or regular fishing. Like what's the purpose of each one and what's better for me if my main goal is just to learn the basics of fishing and catch something to eat.
Non-flyfisher here, but flyfishing is mostly done to catch trout and fish like it in streams. Catching anything else requires jumping through gigantic hoops and using equipment and lure workarounds, and even though you undoubtedly will come across some fly fisherman who says pike and bass are a-OK as flyfishing species, most people will just tell you to buy a spinning reel and some lures. Also casting is more intuitive with a spinning reel.
Fly fishing is about wasting your time convincing fish they want to eat. You can see the fish you want. The fish can see your fly. The fish aren't hungry and don't want to eat. The fish are horny and want to cooooom then die. So you spend an hour trying to fish that eating one last fly is better then cooooooooming.
Regular fishing is about sitting around drinking and eating, waiting for the to eat your lure. You could be doing it from a dock, looking like an eye sore and making the place unsafe for swimming, or you could be doing it from a boat, looking like an eye sore and dumping out as much pollution as you can get away with.
>fishing from a kayak
>being an eyesore and making the river unsafe for boats
If you get too close I WILL board you
yea others kind of touched on some stuff.. but if you like a more relaxed style of fishing and more still-water stuff like lakes and ponds, spinfishing might be better.. if you want to catch trout in fast fresh water, fly fishing is a really fun way to do it. The big difference really is that with spin fishing the weight is in the lure, and you can chuck it.. But fly fishing the "lure" is generally a light "fly" made of feathers.. so in order to send it where you want it, the weight is in the fly line and you throw the weight of the line instead and the fly rides along.
How the frick do you birdsnest a spinning reel?
By having a shitload of loose line loops come off the spool at once, then they tangle. Can happen if the line has lots of memory, like with a stiff monofilament. But yeah, I don't think this happened to me after the age of 12.
easily avoidable by pulling the line taught after closing the bail each cast. and no it doesn't waste extra time, it becomes an automatic subconcious habit once you get used to doing it.
My da has bad anger issues and his hissy fits 9/10 ruin a good trip
FLyfishing is more advanced and has more homosexualry attached
so much homosexualry
t. fly fisher
sorry about that.. I was out fishing one day and a dad and his son, maybe 8 years old, start fishing right across from me.. Kid got the lure snagged under a bridge before dad could even crack a beer, dad got mad, kid started crying...
man it was sad hearing how the dad talked to the kid.
>be me on fishing trip with my uncle when I was about 10 years old
>catch a fish and start reeling it in
>it's a big one and my tiny kid arms are having trouble fighting it
>uncle is yelling directions, pull this, reel that, point the rod this way etc.
>After a long fight I begin to raise the rod to get it in the net but it shakes itself loose and gets away
>uncle becomes angry and starts yelling "NOW WHO'S FAULT WAS THAT" repeatedly
>"m-mine"
>tearfactory.jpg
shit uncle but also git gud
your uncle sounds like a fricking c**t. way to miss the entire god damn point in taking a kid fishing.
how long did it take before you wanted to go fishing again? =/
Luckily that experience didn't taint fishing for me as a whole. I guess I just kinda forgot about it. My uncle is a cool guy but he has anger issues for sure. All water under the bridge now.
Why do so many fly fishers refuse to eat fish and look at you like you're a savage if you have a stringer of keepers?
I get putting back bycatch, but trout is good eating.
t. saltwatergay who recently got into flies after a move.
i know i fish a super pressured tailwater located in one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world.. and if everybody who went fishing on that river kept what they caught, there would unquestionably be nothing left in there.. but it's a destination fishery for people in a 4-state radius because of the regulations that keep the fish protected. A lot of the flyfishers who spend a lot of time on that type of fishery tend to be extremists when it comes to c&r... Really they're probably just mad because they used to be able to catch and keep hogs on their local river but now pollution and habitat destruction and water quality degradation and fishing pressure have made it impossible to catch those same caliber of fish.. so they scapegoat poachers and people who keep fish.. reality is more complicated
Thanks for explaining flyfishing to me, I really appreciate it. Seems like if you google this stuff everybody expects you to already know the basic "why's". Like for example my backroad mapbook mentioned a lake near me is good for "chironomid fishing". I google it and all I get is "here's extensive info on the lifecycle of bugs". Literally nothing about "wtf is it and why do I care". So yeah, thanks for the handholding, it really helps.