Not only do I like to take part in the ever growing sport of fly fishing, I also love to read about it. I read all of the magazines and I stop by a lot of the other blogs that are on the internet from the ones that are mentioned by espn to the little one that are on the net. I have found, or it is guessed that this sport has been around before BC. So there are many types of cultures that have taken this sport into their own and made everything they can out of it.
I remember when I was younger my dad and I lived up in the mountains and for my 12th birthday he had got me a bamboo fly rod. It had to have cost a couple hundred bucks or more, but I still have it to this day. That day we went out fishing for dinner and it was one of the best days that I have ever experienced. We left the cabin at dusk and did not return until the sun went down. We were fishing for sport, for the love, but also we needed to get some food on the table so we were fishing for dinner also. We brought back about 10 trout that day, and they were all great size.
Of course we caught a lot more than that but we let all of the small ones go, so that we could catch them maybe a year or two down the road when they are much bigger. I still have that rod that my dad bought me and it has almost been thirty years. Another reason why I think that bamboo is the material there is to make a fly rod out of, although it is also probably the most expensive. I have been through several different reels for the rod but the pole is still holding up like it was brand new, all I have to do is apply a little bit of maintenance to it every couple of years.
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