I have a 17 yr old nephew up from Colorado staying for the summer.He's been staying with his half brother and working with him,big Bro has a roofing company.
Anyways,I've been taking him camping and teaching him to fly fish for the last 3 weekends,and we're heading out again next weekend.Gawd I've been having a blast.The kid is a sponge when it comes to absorbing info.He picked up fly casting pretty quick,and started catching fish from his float tube.This last weekend I changed it up and we fished a small river all weekend.
It was a little harder now,he had to contend with moving water,brush and trees and logs that eat up flies.
While explaining to him how to read the water and where to cast I saw a flash under a log,and got him to cast into the current and let the water take it under the log,WHAM! A big brook trout nailed his fly and came flying out of the water about 2 feet.Unfortunately the battle was short and the trout won that round.At first Clay was dissappointed but he got over it quick when he realized what he had just done.Now I think I've created a fly fishing monster .To give him more incentive I gave him one of my graphite rods,a 9 ft 5 wt.
His Dad's going to hate me(my big brother) when he gets back to Colorado.I'm hoping this will get my Brother back into fishing too.He hasn't done much in the last 5 years,and he's living in good trout country in Colo.
