Salmo G

Then by that ligic there is no difference between gear fishing and flyfishing.. Would that be your argument? In which case why even have the word flyfishing?

If you are right then i have caught thousands of winter steelhead while fly fishing. In fact i caught obe day before yesterday on a pink maroubou fly with an 3/16 pz lead head fished under a thrill strile indicator of a 8'6" rod and mono line..

My only point is that there is a difference between flyfishing and gear fishing. Not a difference of ethical value but a difference of the physical nature of the fishing itself. That difference is the cast! In gear fishing it's the weight of the lure of bait or added weights that load the rod and make the cast possible..
In flyfishing it is the line itself that loads the rod and makes the cast possible..
Therefore anytime that they fly or any attatchment is what loads the rod and makes the cast possible one is no longer flyfishing but is gear fishing..

Here is what gets me. people are so anxious to be called flyfishermen that it bothers them to be called otherwise. Yet at the same time they are so frustrated by their attempts to catch fish flyfishing that they insist on usung gear fishint tactics to catch fish yet still insist on being called flyfishermen.. What's up with that? People are either stuck on the idea that they have to catch a fish eery time they go out or they are so inlove with the idea of being called flyfishermen that they get offended when someone tell them they aren't.

Now people can do whatever they want it's no concern to me I just think it's funny that their egos and identities are so wrapped up in it...
now i am talking about people in general not necessarily anyone on this post who are all people i have never met...