Great tip from and outstanding guide. The finest flats in North America. www.BeaverIsland.org

Not just good advice but great advice. I find fishing in hip waders and not chest waders keeps me from wading too far into the river.

While flats fishing for redfish last week in Florida we simply anchored in the shallows and waited for the fish to come to us. We discovered even poling very slowly in the shallows scared most the fish. We sat quiet and still and waited, just like deerhunters, and saw more fish.

And this is what separates the fly angler that wants to advance their skills from the hardware fisherman. It is like the skills advanced by a good bow hunter, the fly angler being the bow hunter. You have to be very observant hone your senses as to what is going on, and plot your strategy to fool your quarry, as apposed to the spin fisherman that opens the bail, and flings it out there a long way. But, again, this site seems bent on lumping the methods together as if it isn't worth it to advance your skills as a fly angler.

If you want that emphasis jamesti you need to go to another site. This one is about blending in flyfishing with other types of fishing. The business model suggests few want to get good at flyfishing, and just want to dabble in it from time to time..power bait flies, use of garden worms, feature Joan Wulff as a spin fisher gal, cooking fish. F & S features it all, and wants to blend all of it in as one...wrong place to learn to be a decent fly fisher person.

Deceiving? Don't know about that, but they sure don't promote the notion that there are special rewards for those that take the time to develop, and hone their fly fishing skills. Well before I came on this thread I had the first hand observation as to the declining interest in fly fishing. F & S just enhances that notion as to why.