Duriensbane
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Therapy. My father drank himself to death, but always talked about how he wanted to go to streams with a fly rod and belly crawl up to them to find fish. I bought him a set up, rod, reel, line, waders and it sat, still in the package for years. After he passed, I just told myself, Im going to do it, im going to learn and im going to all these creeks that have fish in them. So, I did. June of 2023, i went to a creek with a rod after a few youtube videos and after 2 trips, i caught my first trout (image below).Did learn a few things since then as this little guy was caught on a 7wt rod with 7x tippet. Since then i took a deep dive into it, bought more gear then im willing to admit to, and i go out as often as time allows. Im currently on the chase for my first wild 20+ but since I have taken a keen liking to nymphing, size is less of a concern till i get better with a streamer.
