Beezuz,
You still upset after all these years about getting banned once?
Time to let that [Bleeeeep!] go dude.
SF
It sort of has to do with that. Every time I check in, I still see terrible advice repeated like its true by people who only think they know how to fish. Its where those with little experience go to make believe. I much prefer this site because you can call people on their BS and not get banned. WFF is for city folks, with city lives, who sit at a computer all day wishing they could fish but they hardly ever do. They think they learn while not fishing but you really can’t. I was banned because someome in a fly club I was thinking of joining was posting very sesnsative intel he got from his first or second meeting, pretending he was an expert which is typical WFF. I told that man, “You don’t deserve to know [Bleeeeep!] if you are going to do that”. Since he was a dentist he didnt like being held accountable by normal folk so he got me banned. That man moved on from fly fishing to probably helicopter flying a long time ago but all that intel is still there online for the world to see; places my gramps showed me. I guess that man wasnt really a fisherman afterall.
My problem isn't really with WFF or fly fishing, It is with the types that are drawn to fly fishing. They are arrogant and look down on most other types of fishing. They talk like they know a lot, but probably are just playing make believe and their trigger is being told they are wrong because it topples their ivory tower of fly fishing. Why do you think there are so many “legends” in fly fishing? More than any sport. Its because its all ego and bs.
Ive been asked, practically begged by many fly clubs to join because I am youngish and good at it. I even taught classes. These clubs are average age 70 and they need youth bad. Yet they scorn me for not exclusively fly fishing and they repeat BS that is bot gonna help catch anything. The president of one such club told me he caught 3 steelhead in over 30 years trying and he is an “expert”.