The primary argument is that bait fishers kill fish, while most fly fishers release their catch. In the meantime, they’re learning the essentials of trout fishing: where fish are most likely to be in a stream, where and when they’re most likely to feed, what a trout strike feels like, how to hook a trout and how to land them, making the transition to fly fishing much easier.ĭedicated fly fishers often look down their noses at bait fishers, and dedicated bait fishers look up their noses at fly fishers, dubbing them as elitist and snobbish.
When they are a little older, I’ll teach them to fly-fish.
Most kids learn to fish with live bait, and I’ve been using live bait to teach my granddaughters to fish.
Fly fishing often requires costly gear, but fishing with bait requires only the simplest of gear: a spinning or spincast outfit, small hooks, weights and choice of live bait. And when I graduated to trout fishing with artificial flies that Al had tied, I knew that I would be a life-long fly fisher.įishing is one of those rare sports that most anyone can enjoy, regardless of skill level, financial status or social standing. Watching them rise to the lure and snagging them was a thrill I had never experienced. Using popping bugs, we caught scores of bream. Al Geremonte was the paper’s outdoor columnist, and when he learned that I enjoyed fishing, he invited me on a trip to Lake Lure and introduced me to the art of fly fishing. Navy, I was enrolled at Asheville Biltmore College - now the University of North Carolina at Asheville - and was working art-time in the sports department at the Asheville Citizen-Times. I continued fishing exclusively with live bait, primarily night crawlers and red worms, until I was a young adult. I grew up fishing with live bait, catching trout in the upper reaches of Paddy Creek in western Burke County and bream in the large pools in the lower sections, using fat red worms collected from cow patties in the pastures near my home. Night crawlers and other large worms are great live baits for mountain trout in streams where live bait is legal.
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