My rents taught me how to catch my first fish when I was about 5: "Take this here pole with the jiggly thing attached and plop in that there river... then you wait" However useless that info my have been, I went ON DAD with a 1kg+ Largemouth Bass and was hooked. That was the extent of my tutelage. I don't know where I got the idea to fly fish but my parents got me a rod when I was about 12/13. Caught my fist fish on fly in a river on Std 5 camp. Have only really got back into it full time for about 2 or so years now. Taught myself pretty much every thing except to tie flies. I used to go to Tim Rolsten's tying classes at Upstream and he taught me the basics.
Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line;
Let me, less cruel, cast feather'd hook, With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook,
Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with fur-wrought fly delude the prey
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