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Question:
I'm looking to be initiated into the world of fly fishing - can anybody recommend a good fly fishing school convenient to the twin cities (Minnesota)?
Answer:
As you research fly fishing schools, also find out about guiding fees in your areas and ask about guides who are happy to teach beginners.
I think you'll find that the daily cost of a fly fishing school is close to the daily rate of a fishing guide.
At a school, you'll spend only part of the time on the water, and the student/teacher ratio (and the teacher is probably the same guide you'd hire privately) will never be better than 2:1, and probably 3:1.
Buy an introduction to fly fishing book. Take out a couple of videos from your library. Learn three knots: double surgeon's loop, modified clinch knot, a nail knot. Now you don't need the classroom component of the school.
Then hire a guide for one-on-one instruction. Tell him you want to spend as much time learning the basics (e.g. casting) as you do catching fish.
You'll learn more, faster. And probably catch more fish, too.
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