Learning fly casting can be tiring. Just swinging the rod back and forth without the proper technique is quite pointless, and demoralising as your fly hardly goes very far.
On the other hand, I can possibly go-on casting and casting for days with a baitcasting setup. That’s because it’s become so second nature to me having been flicking lures for decades. But hey, we all have to start somewhere.
That’s what happened the first time I went to the water to practice and being only the second time swinging the 9-foot fly rod, it proved to be interesting to say the least (The first time being on a football field casting for ‘grass carps’).
The more the muscles ached the more out-of-shape my cast become. But the sight of finning fish with the occasional surface frenzy caused by schools of hunting Peacock Bass kept the spirit afloat.
To top it off, having successfully caught something in the process and catching the moment on video was a feeling of great satisfaction.
hahah….you got the peacock bass hooked on all this time, righttt????? you crafty bugger. heh heh
Cool eh?