Rusty Pruitt, my frequent fly fishing partner, uses Sage rods with Lamson reels. I use a Sage 2324 reel with my Reilly Kildare and a Cabelas RLS reel with my Cabelas rod.

Then her brother mentioned Fly Fishers International. "People actually do this for a living, and they teach people how to cast," he told her. "No way, that can't be true," she responded.

For fly fishing guides such as Ono and Ross, this season is particularly important, following two years of almost no activity due to the COVID-19 pandemic. "It's been very slow.