[Insensitive PAP]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

Honestly if you know how to cast and fish in a stream with hardware or even bait, you can do fly fishing in almost no time. (The transition is even easier in a small lake.) The instinct, knack and skill for seeing that perfect riffle and casting your lure just at the right spot upstream so that it courses right through the center fold of that riffle is readily transferrable. Also, much as dry fly fishing is the storied, romantic part of fly fishing, I've found that 90% of the time wet flies are in order. To a large extent the distinction between lures or hardware and wet flies is semantics. You do need to learn to feel comfortable with a fly rod and reel and fly line, but that doesn't take long if you've fished all your life. But I think even experienced fishers need a guide when the go to a new spot with promise. From what I've seen, you will never be as fruitful with flies as a spin cast rod and hardware. But the journey's the thing, right?

Maybe you need a bigger pole?