Comments on: New Year’s Aspirations http://joshuablankenship.com/blog/2009/12/26/new-years-aspirations/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:28:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: blaine http://joshuablankenship.com/blog/2009/12/26/new-years-aspirations/comment-page-1/#comment-245777 blaine Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:44:50 +0000 http://joshuablankenship.com/blog/?p=8300#comment-245777 Two keys to learning fly fishing: a good mentor, and a place of wide solitude. Bream in a farm pond, preferably on a spring evening, are perfect practice -- even if your real goal is trout on a stream. My dad and I fly fish bream every spring (we call 'em bluegills up north). In spring and early summer they provide fast action, which is key. Learning to cast is only half the pursuit. Setting the hook and playing the fish in are equally challenging. Good clean fun, to be sure. Two keys to learning fly fishing: a good mentor, and a place of wide solitude.

Bream in a farm pond, preferably on a spring evening, are perfect practice — even if your real goal is trout on a stream. My dad and I fly fish bream every spring (we call ‘em bluegills up north).

In spring and early summer they provide fast action, which is key. Learning to cast is only half the pursuit. Setting the hook and playing the fish in are equally challenging.

Good clean fun, to be sure.

]]> By: Matt Donovan http://joshuablankenship.com/blog/2009/12/26/new-years-aspirations/comment-page-1/#comment-245613 Matt Donovan Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:06:19 +0000 http://joshuablankenship.com/blog/?p=8300#comment-245613 I echo your aspiration to learn to fly fish. I also echo the other aspirations, but I've been wanting to learn to fly fish for years. I even have a pole and reel. I echo your aspiration to learn to fly fish. I also echo the other aspirations, but I’ve been wanting to learn to fly fish for years. I even have a pole and reel.

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