Image: Earl Harper through Hatch Publication
Whereas trout fishing is typically stylish and peaceful, pike fishing can be the specific reverse, and this is precisely why, Chris Hunt argues, fly fishers ought to not skip the possibility to go after these aggressive, toothy predators:
Since, for each trout that “takes your breath away,” I provide you a visual cast that will both salve and exasperate, please and aggravate. For you, dear trout purist, I provide you the fly-fishing craft’s virtual Crossroads, where, if you pick, you can make that dreadful “Handle the Devil.” I comprehend if your puritan training prohibits from you from wandering off from the flock– from venturing from the ideal drift and explore the incorrect prophet that may can be found in the type of a quickly connected Gurgler flung deep into a spot of boreal lily pads and pulled with function back towards the boat. There’s absolutely nothing stylish about it. No one is going to compose pleased literature explaining this fishing that may one day be provided as a romantic movie script that alters fly fishing permanently.
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