anyone not a fly fisher?

....no fly rod in my arsenal.
Somehow still manage a fish or 2.
BTW, thanks for the heads up on those whisker fish rap.
Ended up taking the boy the following weekend & we had a blast.

Rich: I use the spinning rod till later in the fall but I normally use flies with it for steel.

I also may head up the end of this week (Thurs. or Fri) and my normal partner can't make it if you want to fish over here and aren't working.

Never used a fly rod but I do own a couple of them.
Fly fishing is part of my list of things to do that I never get around to.
I cheat and toss flies under an indicator with my noodle rod.

And for 30-06 I do have 1 and have sold 4 others.
I use a Ruger 77 because it fits me better than the Remington, Winchester and Savage I had.
It is not quite as nice as a custom pre 64 action with adjustable stock, Douglas Barrel I had but when I sold it I could buy 3 of the others.
Have at least 10 more deer rifles-enough for me and a friend in any type of deer hunting.

Sooner or later I may even catch one!!!...WF

+1

dave, i have to work both days. just ain't right. i am planning saturday though. appreciate the offer, too. if you guys can sneak away some weekend...........

I use a fly rod for steel and other things. I do not always necessarily use a fly though--even on a fly rod.  I like it for a better presentation. I use spin for about every thing as well--but for steel in the streams I use a fly rod.

Used to fleefish not for me.

spinner gear all the way for me. Ill save the fly gear for retirement.

your world must be defined in black and white?

I mainly spin fish.  I have a cheap old Daiwa fly rod to use when I want to fly fish.  Back when I used to fish for steelhead (before kids interrupted my hobby), I caught more steel on flies fished with my spin rod than with bait or other lures.  Black wooly buggers and wooly worms did the trick.

Oh, yeah.  I also have a 30/06.  Husqvarna model 8000 in a Brown fiberglass stock.

fly fishing for the 2nd time ever this weekend at one-fly thanks to MO... ought to be interesting, there's no bail to open up before i cast

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i learned how to fish with a spinning reel.  don't use it much anymore except when i use jigs.  to me it's 3rd on the totem pole behind my fly rods and centerpin outfits.

jimhalupka, however, is a spin fisherman.

-------you're gonna pay for that one. i think he will grow old and die with a fly stick in his hand.....just sayin.

Myself and my 3 older brothers all did it backwards.  As soon as we were old enough to walk we had fly rods in our hands and none of us owned a spin rod until we were probably teenagers. Me being the youngest I think I may have a closed face zebco that I put on a 6 ft fenwick fly rod, somewhere around age 9 or 10.  We all still flyfish allot but spinfish more often than not.  I fly fish when I can catch them on dries or stripping streamers.  Rarely ever bobber fish with a flyrod. Maybe occassionally for stocked trout, but bobber fishing isn't flyfishing.

jim, what do you use for steelhead on the tribs?

Can I use my 30.06 in place of a fly rod???
I haven't been huntin' in several years and might get more use out of it fishing!

ORIGINAL: KJH807

ORIGINAL: Stillhead

...but bobber fishing isn't flyfishing.

i'm sure there is a huge variation of what people consider and don't consider "fly fishing"

You are right. I should have worded it differently.    Bobber fishing isn't the type of flyfishing I prefer to do.