Learning Fly Fishing: The Easy Way or the Hard Way

October 3, 2006 By: Marshall Cutchin

After just managing to help raise two kids to the age of four, I think “the easy way or the hard way” is just a natural part of every conversation with a toddler. But maybe it’s also a choice for anyone just starting out, as trout bum Mark Littleton suggests it is for fly fishers. “I found this comical, a fly-fisherman who didn’t like to fish the hatches. Chris hated dry fly-fishing so much that more than once I caught him nymphing during an excellent mayfly hatch. My first response was, ‘You have got to be kidding. We waited all summer for this hatch and he is ignoring it.'” In the Seattle Times.