Why You Can Never Finish

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Alvin Dedeaux

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@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing 10 ай бұрын

Enjoy the journey!

@jamesl.4911 10 ай бұрын

The journey never ends. Thanks Alvin!

@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing 10 ай бұрын

@@jamesl.4911 Thanks for watching!

@jeffbrooks8288 10 ай бұрын

Alvin, I love your channel. I’ve been following you for years. Sadly the fly fishing journey does come to an end when age or poor health bring it to a close. For me it was MS and other issues that suddenly ended my life-long love affair with fly fishing 2 1/2 years ago. I was lucky to fly fish for 50 years and I’m still tying flies after 55 years. I can tell you the desire to fly fish never leaves because it was the great passion of my life. I’ve already lost some of my fishing companions who have passed away, but my closest fishing partner is still fishing at nearly 70 and I’m keeping him supplied with flies health permitting. For those who love this sport with a great passion, fish as hard as you can while your health allows it. Because one day it will come to an end despite your wishes to the contrary. Then you can gift your gear to the next generation of young fly fishers so they can enjoy what you’ve loved so much. Thanks Alvin for keeping it real. I wish I could have known you!

@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing 10 ай бұрын

Jeff, thank you for the message. We are all heading the same direction, if we are lucky enough to last that long. Thanks for being here.

@michaelgieringer3209 10 ай бұрын

Jeff - I made me a fishing Walker -- 4 wading staffs are much better than just ONE staff -- i modified it to have rod holder and a SEAT so i can turn it around and sit on it and fly fish for hours.

@sullivanivens4387 10 ай бұрын

About a year and a half in and already on phase 5!

@wawywawo 6 ай бұрын

Hi Alvin ! Kyle here 😂 totally agree w the phases - over 40 years here too I’m def in phase 5 and for sure ya just happy to still be getting out there !! Keep up the good work brother

@pilecastflyfishing 9 ай бұрын

My "one fish" was a musky eat on a big streamer about a decade ago. Smoked the fly mid river, just past a big rock. Head shakes, a hard run upstream, a tail walk, and then gone. I was tight to the fish the entire time, but the hook just came unglued even after a hard strip set. Them's the breaks somedays. I still think about that "one fish". I can still see the way the sun gleamed off it's slab side as it came out of the water. I've caught many muskies and other toothy warmwater fish before and after but when I lost that fish, my legs were shaking and I just slumped into the casting brace. We had lunch right after and I gotta say, it tasted like sadness. I love this video my friend. The cyclical nature of our passion is what keeps me going. Hope you're doing good.

@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing 9 ай бұрын

Man I can feel that one. Thanks for shring the story.

@billmccroskey9014 10 ай бұрын

I think I started at phase 5! But am only about a year in! I caught my first in May of 23. Over Feb and Mar of this year I got into around 5 fish an outing, all 10-12” browns. On my favorite stretch there is a strong riffle with a pool on the other side. This past weekend I was able to make that cast to a nice dead drift and caught an 18” brown! All the KZbin’s and guide lessons paid off! I didn’t horse him or snap my tippet. I’ve been hooked since my first solo wade. But that cemented it!!! Thanks for what you do!

@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing 10 ай бұрын

That's so awesome, happy for you!

@jaybush1166 10 ай бұрын

Great video. I’ve had this discussion many times with people. I’ve heard it called the evolution of a sportsman. I seem to move between 3, 4 and 5. Fishing with my boys and watching them progress is surely the highlight of my fly fishing.

@Swamp-Fox 10 ай бұрын

Looking forward to hearing more about the solar!

@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing 10 ай бұрын

Probably do a more in depth video on the other channel.

@liammcgee1845 10 ай бұрын

Haha yup I can relate to this. On my third year of fly fishing. I’m somewhere between 2 and 3. From being happy just getting A FISH to the net, to catching my first brown trout, struggling for 2 years to catch my first steelhead and then it FINALY happening. And then after all that getting out bass fishing for the first time and just being blown away by this new fish to me that I never thought about much on the fly and being absolutely hooked on it. That feeling never gets old! Keep up the great videos!

@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing 10 ай бұрын

So happy for you!

@mikekuczynski1552 10 ай бұрын

Been fly fishing since 1959 and to this day go through each phase every year . So far this year is starting out the same . Thanks for sharing

@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing 10 ай бұрын

That is awesome!

@NorCalsteelheadbum 10 ай бұрын

First! I'm currently 4 years in and have a lot to learn.

@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing 10 ай бұрын

Have fun!

@SledorFish 10 ай бұрын

Teaching my nephews how to fly fish has also been incredible. I get to experience all of their first fish and see the excitement in their eyes. Sea run cutthroat are my youngest nephews favorite and my oldest nephew is becoming a crazy steelheader like me.

@bigsteezer924 10 ай бұрын

This was so accurate for me. I recently showed my brother around some of the great spring fisheries here in Colorado. Every day he would ask..."how many did you catch?!" (as hes firmly stuck in phase 2 right now). I could never give an answer. Nowadays I just enjoy being out, I havent counted fish in years. I have travelled to NZ solo for a month of DIY successfully chasing big browns, and spent weeks if not months traveling the western US in search of new places and big trout. I dont get nearly as excited when catching anything under 20 inches anymore but thats fine. I feel fully absorbed into the experience. However I do feel Im likely to bounce back and forth between phase 4 and 5. I still have some target fish Id love to go after.. liked n subd

@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing 10 ай бұрын

Good luck out there!

@Daw231 10 ай бұрын

Awesome video as always! All about those zen moments!

@andrewwebster13 10 ай бұрын

Yeah man right now I’m in this phase of trying to find water that nobody goes to for random chances at steelies in the northeast. I caught some fish. I caught some big ones some fresh ones but now I want different water it’s weird! This entire year has been about avoiding the norm.

@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing 10 ай бұрын

Sometimes you need to mix it up to keep it freah!

@easttnflyfreak2870 10 ай бұрын

been fly fishing for six years a great journey no doubt first was blue gils then bass next was trout and smallmouth now all I want is my first muskie on the fly !

@cloudy9862 10 ай бұрын

Looking for a new fly fishing net. I mainly do bank fishing so would like something easy to carry, any suggestions?

@scottburleson7215 9 ай бұрын

I just discovered your channel... LOVE IT! Great content and I look forward to learning more.

@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing 9 ай бұрын

Welcome aboard!

@jimholland1592 10 ай бұрын

That was fun, thanks 😉

@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing 10 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@alexhendrick8288 10 ай бұрын

Finally got my 7lb brown. It as nymphing scuds not streamers but I was over the moon.

@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing 10 ай бұрын

I would be too!

@jeffharper9292 10 ай бұрын

Alvin, somehow you melded phase 3 and 4, unless I missed something. :) Anywho, love this subject, it makes one think about one's attitude about their fishing. I can be phase 2-to-4 depending on what the trip is. I'm phase 4 with some of my trips, but I'm phase 5 with all my trips. Love your stuff, hope I can fish with you some day.

@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing 10 ай бұрын

3 and 4 are close. Sometimes stage 4 is a big fish, sometimes it's a specific fish or species that may or may not be big.

@Wogger46 10 ай бұрын

Cool vid Alvin. Too bad that a lot of fisherman get stuck in phase two.

@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing 10 ай бұрын

Just got to show them the way.

@lesleyallen3410 10 ай бұрын

Great good for thought!

@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing 10 ай бұрын

Glad you think so!

@Krakenflyfishing 10 ай бұрын

“Sometimes 1 fish is a lot of fish”….especially when it is that “1 fish” gotta love the hunt.

@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing 10 ай бұрын

So true!

@genegarrett4172 10 ай бұрын

When are you going to review the ORVIS MegaTÜL?

@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing 10 ай бұрын

As soon as they send me one 😂

@davidsobol5033 10 ай бұрын

great my friend awesome!!!!! phase 6 or to add to 5, what can i do to help these fish via catch and release or improve habitat and educate others !!! keep up the great work. the journey is the destination.

@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing 10 ай бұрын

Great suggestion!

@fredkirk6967 10 ай бұрын

Excellent! Phase 5 is nirvana!

@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing 10 ай бұрын

I guess it is!

@petevonschondorf4609 10 ай бұрын

Hi Alvin, I'm an addict too, my journey through my fly fishing addiction has been decades long with no sight of making a recovery. My only hope is to move to the Antarctic or the desert, where open water is limited or just say the hell with it and go and buy those new waders I need.

@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing 10 ай бұрын

Yeah you need them! I guess I'm an enabler 😂

@mosesmilliman 10 ай бұрын

Would love a video on flies you fish with a 8wt for Bass!

@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing 10 ай бұрын

Check these out kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqDdhWSjeq1jntksi=kydGobxjm_s6onAa

@bigskyoutdoors4232 10 ай бұрын

Ah man I’m all over the place there’s always a fish on the list to catch and sometimes I just want to get out to enjoy getting out

@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing 10 ай бұрын

Me too!

@jayr7471 10 ай бұрын

I always thought it was the whiskey. JK, love the vid and channel.

@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing 10 ай бұрын

There is that too! 😂

@surferx66 10 ай бұрын

No phase four? I see flycasting, especially alone, as a form of meditation. Totally in the moment and tuned into your surroundings.

@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing 10 ай бұрын

True!

@chriseggs3447 10 ай бұрын

Wait, so phase 3&4 is the same? I feel like I missed something

@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing 10 ай бұрын

I had a buddy who had caught all kinds of big fish, but his one fish that he ended up spending a bunch of time trying to catch was a tiny Gila trout. So the one fish and the big fish aren't always the same.

@chriseggs3447 10 ай бұрын

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