Is fly-fishing more difficult to master than golf in terms of technique?
PS: I don’t play golf so it’s hard for me to say but my fishing friends who golf describe it as quite a challenge. Both obviously take lots of practice and patience to master. Interestingly, sports like golf, tennis, etc, encourage you to ‘swing through’ the ball, but with fly-casting there is a need for a definitive check of the cast (or ‘swing’) to allow the rod to ‘unload’ and cast the line. The ability to give the rod a chance to unload usually takes work for golfers and tennis players. I have a friend who says about golf “drive for show, putt for dough.” The same could be said about fly-casting, as the photos in the magazines often show these long elegant casts, which are great, but most fishing situations demand accuracy instead of raw distance. With golf, if you miss a put, the hole doesn’t go anywhere and you can just walk up and finish the putt. With fly-fishing, if you blow your cast to a wary fish, they’ll either spook or just lock up, sort of like missing a putt and having
