Spin Cast or Open Face
 

Okay..Okay..enough of the politics and psychology... lets get with the meat and potatoes of our manly hoods.... Spin Cast or Open Face, Natural or Artificial (Baits not Breasts)....


Can vote for more than one.....

Fly, dry.

I would love to learn how to fly fish, is there a place in Colorado that anyone knows where you can get instruction?

My family used to own a cabin on a creek up there when I was a kid.... My mom says she used to go out in the mornings and catch the trout on dough balls she would make and then she would bring them in, clean them and fry them for the family with eggs for breakfast....

I bet your town probably has 2 or 3 fly fishing clubs. They love having new members and guests and you will even probably find some member with old equipment that they will let you use to practice.

How about: "all of the above"?

And here I thought we were talk'n bout a new sex experience...

Mostly fly, have'nt tried it on saltwater yet though.

Usually use spin cast with natural or artificial, if I am deep sea fishing open face with natural. Never used flyrod, don't think I would like it..... Fished with cane pole growing up....

"We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman."

I watch the Sportsmans channel every once and a while and watch those fly fisherman getting all excited about catchin a 6 inch long fish. Don't get it.... Although when they are fishing for salmon I would figure that it would be a little more interesting..... The weirdest one I watched is where these guys were ice fishing up north and they were catching fingerlings about 4 inches and long and putting them in their buckets to take home. No kidding they were the size of sardines...... I guess you would just pressure cook them and eat them whole.... anybody got any experience with this???

You can fly fish for any fish you bait cast for. Salt water fly fishing is very popular. Just use a heavier leader and tippet.

Yeah, I have watched some of the shows where they have gone bone fishing and red fishing with the fly rod. Looks like it would be fun and challenging landing those larger hard fighting fish on the lighter fly rods... I think I would have to use someone elses equipment on a fishing day in order to determine whether or not I would purchase my own.....

Er......spear? Anyone?

I might like fly fishing, with you on the other two though. Why would you not like it, aside from being anti-Sea of Galilee fisherman? I spearfished once, well a bunch of times if you count gigging lampreys, once with real speargun

i've free dived with slings and small & large spear guns. I've meat fished at night w/a screwdriver. etc etc

my bud is a nut for taking his fly rod along anytime we go shark'en. Once you're off shore into the gulf stream all kinds of fish may show up.

here in miami we call those bait
we put them in buckets and take them offshore where real fish are
marlin, sail, tuna, dolfin, kingfish ect
never could get the point of catch and release
I am more in to catch and EAT
so bones and tarpon are out
as are light line and sissie littler fly reels
I want to winch the fish in and get it in the icebox
then catch another

spinning for trout.
baitcast for bass.

spincast if you are 10 years old or younger. actually not a big fan of spinning reels. i can cast a flyrod, but i have not actually fished with one. feeling the "tap tap tap" of a big bass with a baitcast reel, and a rubber worm, is not to be missed.

Bait cast (which choice is bait casting?) for everything (except for that rare trip to go fly fishing) and mostly live bait.

Anyway I can do it, but my fav is ultra light spinning with small aritficials. A UL spinning rig on a fly rod is fun too, lets ya really throw them 1/32oz baits out there and have lots of control of the fish

I've fished all my life. I've caught fish all over the world with every conceivable rig you can imagine. I've even gone salmon fishing in a canoe with a bow. (unsuccessfully).

I've completely abandoned the crane 'n cable approach to fishing. If I can't use a fly rod, count me out. I've caught tarpon, sailfish, bonefish, trout and salmon on a fly rod. I'd rather catch a 12" trout on a 3-weight fly rod than catch a 40 pound king salmon with a salt water reel.

Fly fishing is active. Bait fishing is passive. Fishing a river or small stream with a fly rod is much more like hunting than fishing. It requires stealth, patience and careful technique. When you do it right, it's thrilling. You can learn enough in an afternoon to have success on a river. After you catch your first rising trout on a dry fly you will likely be hooked for life.

Nice little video (not mine)

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