The main title tells you more than the article in itself I think. Because when we begin a conversation about what fly fishing "should be", a quite long diatribe can take the scene and becoming dominant.
For some, fly fishing is "a sport" while for others is a "fishing technique", someone can think is "an art" others may think it is just an "outdoor discipline".
For my personal experience fly fishing is more "a lifestyle" or "a way of being", a general "human behaviour", and at the end if we want to go wide and general, fly fishing can be intended as a "philosophy".
For sure is easier to say what is "not fly fishing" than describing it accurately.
For sure is a human practice and therefore it drags with it all human behaviours: for better or for worse (trivially said) fly fishing is affected by the quality of his performers and "actors".
As good are his perforers as good and ethic will be his result and put in to practice.
Many of you can ask: "why you're focusing on an argument like this", but If you think for a while and reflect, we, as fly fishers and me (member Casting Instructor of Fed Fly Fishers) are strictly related with environment quality, with water pollution status, and in general with the "conservation" concepts.
What does will remain of our environment beauties, rivers, lakes, seas if we are not fully responsible all the time?
And we do not have to think that being responsible and conscious of the risks nature conservation is exposed to will transform our happiness of fly fishermen in to a "bad feeling" or negative mood.
The key point is being proud and happy to have the right ethic behaviour in any single situation we face, as fly fishermen.
For this reason when some days ago while I was spending some time of fishing and tuition in Slovenia (for thoose who never have been there, please contact me to have more infos, because is a real paradise for fly fishing) and I was standing on the Planina bridge on the beautiful Unec river, I was totally surprised by what I saw:
A group of italian fishermen that were literally screaming around with strange language and bad words, but especially: they were fishing with huge pieces of bread attached on the fly.
So the question came out spontaneously: why being surrounded by a real paradise, full of hatches of Ephemera Danica and as well smaller maylies, or Ecdyonurus species, and doing that?
Which fly fishing ethic is that? Which chapter of his glorious story?
Which is the sense of making miles and miles and paying 100 euros for a daily fishing permit, and being surrounded by a lot (too much) of people especially that was fishing (and catching) trouts with bread?
How would you rate this behavior?
In several italian reservoirs as well as in slovenian Sava river for example (Trophy section in Selo town) it does exist a limited number of fishermen daily licenses, why not in Unec? Why especially do not put some little questionnaires (compulsory) for guest fishermen to be sure they have tools and culture to fish a certain river or reservoir?
If we do not pursue constantly the high end and fly fishing traditional ethics, we'll loose everything, and we will see the proliferation of these behaviours and episodes.
I hope this mine article will let you think more to some absurd cases, and I seriously hope in the close future we will see more limited number reservoirs and especially more control on the fishing activity and users of the licences.
Hope you like reading,
PB Piter Fly
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