Determination -- The days can come when you will fish all day with no strike let alone catching a trout. The days will come when you miss strikes and you get no hookups. Or you lose them while trying to get them into the net. Or you will miss read the area you are fishing and spook your trout. Or you will spot a twenty eight inch brown and develop a case of the shakes and you won't be able to exchange out flies. Or else you fall down, get wet and hopefully only hurt your self confidence.

But the key for you being an effective trout fisher is to stay with it. Train and keep mastering new knowledge. Fly-fishing will be lifetime learning experience. Learn from your mistakes, have an experienced fly fisher to show you the way, take a guided trip to cut short your learning curve and maybe find a large trout. Persistence is a main key to succeeding at most things. In 1969, 70 and 71, I only caught one trout a year with a fly rod. Nevertheless I did not give up because I wanted to be a fly fisherman. In my fourth season, an experienced flyfisher taught me to catch trout in 10 minutes.

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