Fly fishing can be a frustrating sport at times. You can see fish rising in the current to feed at or near the surface but can’t see what they are hitting. Now some people will land one and take out a little syringe and suck out the contents of the fish’s stomach to see what it has been feeding on and then  they find a fly like or close to the one the fish has been feeding on. The problem with that is: you have to catch a fish when you haven’t been catching any!

Sometimes, I’ve thrown everything in my fly boxes, which must have over 500 flies in them, and still not caught a thing. The fish then seem to just rub it in that you can’t catch them. That’s when you want to throw the rod, flies and vest into the current to put your self out of the misery that you are having while supposedly having so much fun.

But, they say, a bad day fishing beats a good day working. So I must be overly sensitive. But, at least I am fishing when this goes on.