Wanting to learn

[riverdog]

It really depends on how you learn best. I learned to fly fish by taking up an offer from a friend to take me out to the Duchesne and show me. If you have someone do that (or hire a guide for a few hours if you don't), you can avoid learning bad habits/ wrong technique from the very start. You'll get feedback immediately if you're forcing your cast too hard or whatever else that you'll do wrong. This is a very quick way to pick up the basics. Plus many places like the Uintas mentioned you'll probably be catching fish within minutes. I've also taught 2 people to fly fish the same way I did. Both caught a over a dozen trout on a small streams their first hour out. A lot better than casting in an empty field after watching videos. With that basic experience you can then read and watch videos and apply it. In my mind what get's overlooked in watching videos and reading is people don't learn to adjust/ improvise for the conditions present. Won't be likely you'll be doing anything others haven't done before. However it would take hundreds of hours of videos to address such a wide range of conditions you'll likely encounter on stream. The other area that is critical is to learn when and where to fish with changing seasons/hatches/ fish migration/ weather and flows (whether due to nature or manmade release s of water from dams and tunnels). I can pretty much catch fish any day of the year in Utah on a size 10-12 bh prince nymph knowing where to go that day. If you don't know where to go some days you fish places with little to no chance of catching any fish with any fly.
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