Teach Fly Fishing to an Acquaintance and Gain a Friend

Over the years I have had the chance to teach fly fishing to several people. Most of them were acquaintances at the time. Now as I look back I realize that each of those acquaintances have become close friends and fishing partners over the years. Some have become closer friends than others but all of them could now be considered friends.

There even a couple of them that have become far better fly fishers than I am. But I have to take a little joy in the fact that they are very good and I actually had a small hand in that. Sure, they got good on their own. Through practice and persistence they have honed their skills to in some cases, master level in my eyes.

Many have become very proficient fly tyers and have boxes full of patterns that look like they were professionally tied.  They cast with an effortless ease and precision that can make an experienced angler stop and take notice.

Some of us don't get the chance to fish as much as we would like to and may not have honed our skills to that master level but we have a friendship that has developed over the years by a mutual bond of loving the outdoors and the creatures that live there.  Now and then we get the chance to meet and fish together and tell stories about trips we've made on our own. We laugh and eat and yes, we even sometimes consume adult beverages.

It is these trips that we all look forward to and talk about and plan for. We come together from different parts of the country for a few days with good friends and fly fishing. These are the memories that we all carry for a lifetime. Memories that may not have been possible had we not taken the time to teach fly fishing to someone we know.

So when you have the chance to teach fly fishing to someone, maybe just an acquaintance, take that opportunity.  You might be taking the first step towards making a friendship and memories that will last a lifetime.

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