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Don’t make it a Routine
Written By: Matt Canter | Issue: July - 2022
Without new streams and new schemes, the magic built into Fly Fishing can vanish.
Routines are boring! What’s not boring is the great sport of fly fishing. Fly Fishing is an interactive game with nature that will take you to beautiful destinations you would otherwise not see. As a fly shop owner, I get to interact with lots of people before they go out for their day of fishing. Too often I see people getting in a “rut” when it comes to enjoying their time on the water. They once went to a certain stretch of a certain river and caught a fish on a certain type of fly. Because that outing was a success, they decide to repeat it over and over again. Successful or not, that gets boring after a while. Go to a new river, try a different style of fishing, try a different time of year, just don’t make it a routine. It’s amazing the new things you will learn and put into your bag of tricks to becoming a more proficient angler by staying out of the “rut.”I’ve been fly fishing all my life, and have turned it into a career, and I’m still finding new things to try. Recently I decided to combine two of my favorite hobbies: Fly Fishing and Mountain Biking. I’ve found that this new mode of transportation to the trout stream has opened up way more options of where I can go and find un-pressured fish.Yes, that’s a photo of a native Brook Trout caught and released underneath the tire of my mountain bike in a remote part of the Cashiers /Highlands Plateau. It would have taken me most of the day hiking in and out of this particular location, but with the bike it was done in just a few hours.You don’t have to take it as extreme as I did, but just try and spice up your most valuable com-modity (your time in nature) by trying something different. There are tons of techniques and methods of how to fool a trout into biting that often get overlooked. If you need ideas of a new place to try, and new technique, or even a new species to target, your local fly shop is always a great place to start!
by Matt Canter, Brookings Anglers
