Jamie's first fish while flyfishing!

Three weeks ago, I probably made my last trip to the Walker of the summer fishing season. It was a great weekend of fishing. My Mom, Mike, Jamie, Shannon, and Aidan made the the trip with us. On the last day, Jamie decided that he wanted to leave the bait in the car and try fly fishing. It was another proud moment for me as Jamie's brother!
I took Jamie to a shallow run of riffles to target the Walker trout. At first Jamie had trouble casting, but within a few minutes, he was able to make a decent upstream cast. Now Jamie has a really logical mind where he tends to see things in a mathematical way. What I mean by that is, he looks at a problem, analyzes it, then does the correct thing and expects success. It is that part of his personality along with his incredible work ethic that has made him such a success in the business world. However, when it comes to fishing, it's not always perfectly logical. In fishing there is as much art as there is logic. In this sense, this is where Jamie struggled for a time. In fly fishing, it is so complex that you not only have to think your way through it by using correct technique, you have to feel your way through it. It's very hard to explain, but it is a huge part of fly fishing. Jamie was frustrated because even though we were fishing the same fly in the same area, I was catching many fish while he was not catching any.
I explained to Jamie that you can not simply rely on technique, you need to use all of your senses and "feel" the fish. It's kind of like the "force" in Star Wars, your instincts need to be able to anticipate what the river and the fish are going to do. I think that Jamie started to understand. First he got a couple of hits, and then he hooked and landed his first Trout on a fly. On the way home, we stopped at the Carson where Jamie eagerly grabbed my fly rod and then proceeded to pull out at least three trout within fifteen minutes.