"pgiblin" wrote in message
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Now, I am open minded and feel that people should be allowed to fish how
they like (within the rules of the water that they are fishing.)

However, I went fishing yesterday (small stillwater) and got chatting to a
guy about his set ups etc, and he showed me the following.......Large
fluorescent bite indicator, leader with point fly and dropper. Both
'flies'
were grub imitations which looked like long maggots.

Well to me this is virtually float fishing with a couple of worms/maggots
on.

Anyone got any thoughts on this?
PG

If the flies look like maggots is that not an example of good imitative fly
fishing? This would seem to be to be more in keeping with 'real' flyfishing
than stripping huge lures through the water. I would agree that the
fluorescent indicator does sound more like float fishing though.

However, as someone new to game fishing I can't really get my head round the
'snobbery' of some attitudes towards fly fishing. Personally I love the
thought of casting a dry fly on a summer's evening to a wild brown trout on
a chalk stream, but at the same time what is wrong with float fishing or
spinning if it is enjoyable and catches fish? I would suggest that these
methods for wild fish would certainly be as 'acceptable' as taking a limit
of newly stocked fish that can be cuaght quite easily on any flies. I am not
against this type of fishing either and believe that people should have a
free choice (if the rules allow).

I would also love to hear what others thought about this subject.

David