Fly Fishing Jazz: “Stage Fright”

Do you suffer from stage fright when fishing with others? “So you make a bad cast. You whiff. You punt the fish. So what?” asks Kirk Deeter in his weekly Fly Fishing Jazz column. Anyone who’s fished with guide looking over their shoulder knows that even on the best of days, some percentage of casts will make us look foolish. The point is to learn how to accomodate mistakes, and the best solution is practice.