Fly-fishing numbers increasing

[afishinado]

Interesting numbers from the article linked below:

"Fly anglers, however, which numbered 7.8 million in 2020, had registered the greatest growth rate over the previous decade (42% increase in numbers) and nearly 20% of those fly anglers in 2020 had picked up a fly rod for the first time."

Fly fishing versus spin fishing

This blog post poses the question of whether fly fishing or spin fishing is the more challenging approach to catching fish.

www.thetroutbandit.com

 

[troutbert]

How do they arrive at these numbers?

 

[Nocktavius]

How do they arrive at these numbers?

Probably driving past Penns any day since February

 

[catchandrelease]

Ya I know my area FF-Only lit up last 2 years. They are far from FF though. They throw salmon eggs ,power bait and rooster-tails but they got a fly rod in hand. It's a joke! I almost drown a guy this spring.

 

[salmonoid]

How do they arrive at these numbers?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/315900/number-of-fly-fishing-participants-us/ (in case anyone has a membership to that site)

Sponsor of the stats and methodology:

Methodology | Pac Report

www.physicalactivitycouncil.org

Based on a survey that had 18,000 respondents. And then from there, statistical analysis...