Is This Really Fly Fishing

pgiblin wrote:
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

He was fly fishing. Unless the water has rules banning floats or spinning
rods and reels and stipulates fly rod only he is within his rights to fish.

On the water run by the club I used to belong to there were several methods
of doing this.

1) Bubble and fly - Bubble float on the end, swivel, leader with droppers,
swivel. Cast out and retrieved slowly.

2) Controller and fly - same as above only bubble float replaced with a
short length, 4 to 6 inches, of clear plastic rod. Cast out and retrived
fast or slow depending on how deep you wanted it to fish.

3) as 1) except flies trailing from bubble as in the setup you saw.

The other loch I fish as a member holds competitions and if it is fly only
they distinguish between "fly only - long rod" which means traditional fly
fishing, or "any method" which allows bubble and fly. Like it or hate it,
these are the rules.

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