2008 World Fly Fishing Championships

[craigw]

booooooooooooooooo competitive fly fishing makes me sick

[AaronJasper]

They were brown and rainbow trout I presume.

[Davyfly]

Craigw,

I would like to know why competitive fly fishing events make you sick.

Davy.

[Brown_Trout]

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Craigw,

I would like to know why competitive fly fishing events make you sick.

Davy.
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Ditto

[craigw]

it was an exageration, i guess its cool but the number game that many fisherman play in recreational fly fishing can be annoying. no offence to anyone who likes count and exagerate about inches and pounds but its not for me. if it was would chuck bait

[LorenWilliams]

Here's a very quick thumbnail of the scoring:

1. Each team consists of 5 anglers. One angler from each team comprises a group/sector of anglers
2. You compete directly against your group since you will all be fishing the same venue. Therefore if you draw a lake you are not competing directly against anglers fishing rivers--that would be unfair.
3. All groups eventually fish all venues-dictated by a random computer generated draw. This balances out the entire field by the end.
4. Each measured fish gets 100 points, each cm of measured length gets 20 points. The two are combined as "fish points." Usually 20 cm is the min size, but in NZ they dropped it 18.5 cm. In any event, 2 small fish are worth more than one large fish within reason.
5. In each group, the anglers are ranked according to fish points...most points gets a "1", fewest gets the highest number (equal to number of anglers in each group). If you blank you automatically get the highest ranking point, and there can be multiple blanks.
6. Then, after each session the anglers are ranked together. So, each "1" from each group will occupy the top 5 places overall--with fish points deciding the rank. Largest fish, then time of first fish break ties.

This continues across the entire tourney. Teams are ranked according to combined individual performance.

It is confusing to explain....but makes perfect sense once you go through it once.

[SlowNDeep]

Let me at 'em - I'll kick their butt.

Soon as I can retire from my day job

[alanb_ct]

Thanks for the explanation Loren. From the formula, two 20cm fish score the same number of points as one 45cm fish. Since the smaller fish are much faster to land, catching them increases your productivity or efficiency. Say for example that a 20cm (~8in) trout takes 5s to land, score and release, while a 45cm (~18in) takes 50s or so. In this way, you could accumulate the same number of points (1000) in 10s with the smaller fish (100pts per second), but your efficiency reduces to only (20pts per second) with the larger fish.

In a stream area with lots of small fish, you could rack up the points fast. It's interesting how the competitions force you to locate areas that contain small fish - this is counter to how we usually fish a stream for sport!

[FK]

But they are not involved in traditional fly fishing,,,,,it is a Contest, competition, scoring, judges, rules, egos etc.



Regards,
FK

[JUICE]

Everyone has an ego and everyone is competative, whoever says they are not is lying. Some more then others. I have found in my limited experience that the guys who aren't interested in how many they catch or how big they are, aren't generally catching very many big ones and certainly aren't loading them up. Of course, exceptions to all rules, and I certainly count myself among those not catching very many and often jealous of those catching more. There is certainly a component of tranquility and peace on the river that impacts my enjoyment as well. However, I would be lying to say that I wouldn't be annoyed and/or jealous if I was sitting across the river from someone and they catch 25 fish while I catch 3, and with Aaron, that happens often.

I often feel disheartened by hatred and the venom spewing that goes on in FF. To each his own without any judgment is the rule I try and live by. As long as we treat the river and the fish well, who cares if someone likes catching them with bait or nymphing or dry flies? Who cares if they only enjoy themselves when they are telling everyone else how good they are or how many they catch? I mean, it's just fishing right. Whatever you enjoy doing out there, do it, but throw your judgment of others out, or just keep it to yourself.

Like my Mother always says:
"If you don't have anything nice to say about someone, don't say anything at all."