Why You Can Never Finish

[@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing]

Enjoy the journey!

[@jamesl.4911]

The journey never ends. Thanks Alvin!

[@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing]

@@jamesl.4911 Thanks for watching!

[@jeffbrooks8288]

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]

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]

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.

[@pilecastflyfishing]

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]

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

[@jaybush1166]

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.

[@sullivanivens4387]

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

[@wawywawo]

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

[@billmccroskey9014]

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]

That's so awesome, happy for you!

[@Swamp-Fox]

Looking forward to hearing more about the solar!

[@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing]

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

[@mikekuczynski1552]

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]

That is awesome!

[@NorCalsteelheadbum]

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

[@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing]

Have fun!

[@liammcgee1845]

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]

So happy for you!

[@SledorFish]

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.

[@easttnflyfreak2870]

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 !

[@Krakenflyfishing]

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

[@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing]

So true!

[@bigsteezer924]

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]

Good luck out there!

[@andrewwebster13]

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]

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

[@alexhendrick8288]

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

[@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing]

I would be too!

[@scottburleson7215]

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

[@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing]

Welcome aboard!

[@Daw231]

Awesome video as always! All about those zen moments!

[@cloudy9862]

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

[@bigskyoutdoors4232]

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]

Me too!

[@Wogger46]

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

[@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing]

Just got to show them the way.

[@jimholland1592]

That was fun, thanks 😉

[@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@surferx66]

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

[@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing]

True!

[@michaelgieringer3209]

i must have missed # 4 but #5 is the best phase

[@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing]

I agree!

[@joshseaborn5471]

I went from phase 1 straight to 5😂 I'm still figuring it out, only a couple years in

[@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing]

Awesome!

[@jeffharper9292]

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]

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.

[@lesleyallen3410]

Great good for thought!

[@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing]

Glad you think so!

[@davidsobol5033]

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]

Great suggestion!

[@petevonschondorf4609]

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]

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

[@genegarrett4172]

When are you going to review the ORVIS MegaTÜL?

[@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing]

As soon as they send me one 😂

[@mosesmilliman]

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

[@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing]

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

[@fredkirk6967]

Excellent! Phase 5 is nirvana!

[@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing]

I guess it is!

[@jayr7471]

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

[@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing]

There is that too! 😂

[@harleysmith7834]

I just had my 1 very small fish for the poor conditions day. Lol

[@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing]

I had a zero fish day the other day! 😂

[@chriseggs3447]

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

[@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing]

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]

☑️

[@javicruzito]

Omg you laugh like a puerto rican comedian character named Pedro Fosas Nasales 😅

[@chrisciaravino1773]

Edgy

[@mikewright4667]

FLY FISHING IS A QUIET SPORT... & IT BRINGS SOLITUDE WITHIN ITSELF,, PEACE OF MIND & TOTAL ENJOYMENT.... THE SPORT OF SAGE'S.........

[@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing]

I agree.

[@Boutros4g]

It's not sponsored by Yeti or Howler? Haha like your channel

[@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing]

Not this one!

[@Boutros4g]

@@AlvinDedeauxFlyFishing Good stuff my man