Failure Is An Option If You Do Not Try!

2016/7/18 11:32:26

I was in a medically induced high as I left from the recovery room a few short weeks ago. Doctors stood over my bed with a weird smile. They were happy for two reasons. I was cleared of cancer and they had seen a extremely rare tumor, the kind they have never seen, nor would see again.

Thus started my two weeks of rehab.

My second day into recovery, a sick joke appeared on my door step. A Sage 5wt fly rod and Bauer reel. What was I to do? Lay in bed? No, load up on pain killers and go fishing of course.

A few days later, a box of fly tying materials was delivered. One of the few purchases I made right after tax season. Even though I have had no formal training, I figured it was time to give it a go. I had not iced a fish in 20 years and I had a great ice fishing season, why not try fly fishing!

With a few tips from the guys at ColoradoMountainFishing, I had turned some really ugly flies into some winners. In fact, most of the fish I have caught have been from my own vise.

My first fly. Ugly.

The last fly I tied this evening. A great success after two weeks of teaching myself how to tie.

I have tried my flies on highly pressured urban ponds, urban streams and a few high mountain waters. What a ride the last few weeks have been!

If you think it is too hard, you are completely wrong. Like anything in life, it just takes a little bit of motivation. Failure is an option, but success cannot be achieved without trying.

This blog originally was posted on FishExplorer.com.

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