Why Trout Anglers Should Try Chasing Pike

Picture: Earl Harper by way of Hatch Journal

Whereas trout fishing is usually elegant and serene, pike fishing may be the precise reverse, and that is precisely why, Chris Hunt argues, fly fishers mustn’t go up the possibility to chase these aggressive, toothy predators:

As a result of, for each trout that “takes your breath away,” I give you a visible tincture that can each salve and infuriate, fulfill and irritate. For you, pricey trout purist, I give you the fly-fishing craft’s digital Crossroads, the place, in case you select, you can also make that dreaded “Cope with the Satan.” I perceive in case your puritan upbringing forbids from you from straying from the flock — from venturing from the proper drift and experimenting with the false prophet that may come within the type of a unexpectedly tied Gurgler flung deep right into a patch of boreal lily pads and pulled with objective again towards the boat. There’s nothing elegant about it. No person goes to write down appreciative literature describing this fishing that may in the future be supplied up as a romantic screenplay that adjustments fly fishing ceaselessly.

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