Fly Fishing Comparison

When most people think of “Fishing” their minds usually picture something along the lines of some old man sitting on the end of a dock, drinking has six pack of natty lite, with a lip full of grizzly wintergreen, holding a beat up $10 push button reel, dropping a live worm down hoping to catch a little bream. Right there is where most people are wrong. There is more ways to fish other than just poking a hole through a worm and waiting for hours to have the chance to catch a small fish. Bank fishing, which is the lazy man’s fishing, consists of sitting on the bank of a river or lake and letting a worm bounce up and down on the bottom until a little panfish eats it. Fly fishing, which is a more advanced way to fish, is a way of presenting a tasty looking fly to a much smarter and more challenging fish to catch. Although people envision bank fishing being the only way to catch a fish, it is incredibly boring and it takes no knowledge of fish whatsoever to do it. On the contrary, fly fishing takes a lot of practice and persistent knowledge of a fish’s eating tendencies that very season to season. Bank fishing and fly fishing contrast each other in more ways than people could imagine like the difficulty to cast, the price difference, and the types of fish …show more content…
The amount up practice it takes to successfully shoot a practically weightless fly into a fish's strike zone is unreal. Unlike fly fishermen, bank fishermen can pick up a cheap walmart pushbutton rod and chuck that worm as far as they can and pray it hits water. It is truly amusing to watch someone who has never fly fished attempt to cast a fly rod. The difference between the difficulty of bank fishing and fly fishing can actually be evident in 5 year olds. A 5 year old can take a push button reel and throw a worm 20 feet into the lake but i know for a fact that a 5 year old can not successfully cast a fly into a run of flowing water in a trout