Fly-Fishing Psychology 101: Managing Frustration

Justin Collmann, a clinical psychology graduate student, believes that fly fishers can help manage their own frustration on the water. photo courtesy Justin Collmann

This past October, I was standing at the lip of the first pool on my home stream in Shenandoah National Park and casting across the current to a fishy undercut boulder on the far side. No sooner had I dropped my fly in the still water behind the rock then my line got caught in the current, and my little dry fly was water-skiing, a nice V-shaped wake behind it. A brook trout actually stuck his head out of the water and asked, “Are you serious?” Then he. . .

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