Becoming Fishers of Men

And here's the subject matter.

We'll talk about fly fishing.

I told you, Jonas, that when I got back, what a great experience.

I've never been fly fishing before.

I didn't know what to expect.

I grew up around a lake and we'd fish for bass or catfish or bluegill or stuff like that.

But fly fishing is a whole different animal.

If you're a fly fisherman, let me just say this up front.

If you're a fly fisherman and I say something wrong, don't email me.

I've been one time, okay? But I'm just taking what I learned, a little bit of the foundational moves and the foundational conversations and words and terms that I used during this episode to make a point.

So fly fishing is a different motion.

It's a different mentality than I'm used to.

And one of the things that I found fascinating about that is about fly fishing is when you hook the fish, which I've come to know is not as easy as it sounds.

Well, you just hook a fish.

I mean, it's a little difficult to hook a trout, I found out.

But the whole process of how you cast to how you mend your line, and I'll explain that in a minute, to when you catch a fish, you have to allow the trout to do what the trout is going to do.

Meaning...

That if it takes off running, you don't fight that you let line out and let it run until it stops running.

And then when it stops running, that's when you strip the line to, and if you can see me on video, I'm, I'm, I'm stripping the line here.

Uh, you strip the line to, because the goal is to keep tension on the pole.

Because if you don't keep the right tension, too harsh of tension and it could rip the lip from the trout.

Too less of tension and it can actually spit the hook out if it's not set deeply.

So you have to keep that tension.

And eventually the fish gets tired and you pull it in and they net it and pull it into the boat.

So that's the fun part about trout fishing and fly fishing is that battle of what's he doing, you know, knowing to whether let line out or strip line in or, you know, I've had I had some go under trees and snap off the snap the hook out of their mouth.