Welcome to The Fly Fishing Basics Forum from Clint Losee

[Clint Losee]

Hello everyone and welcome!

My name is Clint Losee and I’m the owner of The Fly Fishing Basics. To give you a little context, I’m trying out setting up a forum to allow everyone to hopefully get more information from their fellow fly fishers. I figure one of the best ways to learn is to get insight from those around you that are either learning as well or those that have a little more experience. So why not right. 🙂

Since this is an introduce yourself section here’s a little about me. I’ve been fly fishing for something like 30+ years now and started and the age of 8. I’m also a software engineer by day and landscape and nature photographer the other times. I learned how to fly fish alongside my brother and my Dad and boy did it take some time to learn. I struggled a lot in the early days and even now I still do.

I’m located in the great State of Utah and have fished around the country in various different places from California to North Carolina and a few places in between. I can’t think of much more at the time, but you can always read a little more here. If anyone has any questions, feel free to let me know.

Enjoy!

[ThaWhitster231]

Good Evening Clint!

Looking forward to much more content from yourself and other anglers in the future. I have read and watched everything on the site and love that things are tailored to complete beginners. For instance your article on leaders and tippet provided a very fresh perspective from a seasoned angler that was well understood from a beginner.

A little about me is that I am the first in my family to be a passionate angler. Since that is the case it came with a lot of reading and reaching out to individuals since I did not have the benefit of this skill being passed down. Primarily I was a bass angler and have done my fair share of tournaments as a non-boater. My trout experience was spin casting and just buying the latest and greatest. Fishing was awesome for the fact that I found myself in nature on the bank of a river with stimulation only found in nature. The added benefit of catching a fish was something extra as the activity was what I longed for. This is why I decided to get into fly fishing as it was an extremely enjoyable added challenge and i enjoyed catching a fish on a fly that I tied.

My background is that I have an accounting degree but my profession is a Community Association Manager or for short a property manager for condominiums. I enjoy all aspects of the outdoors and started this passion by working at an archery range for 10+ years. Thus my love for the outdoors and hunting ensued. I am blessed that I have several friends who are Orvis a guides and look to their guidance. All in all I am looking to spending more time outside than I already do and devote my time to another sport that proivdes more rewards than other activities. I am located in Connecticut and have only fished the northeast but have landed several notable species. Looking forward to learning and once I have enough being able to pass it on to new anglers as I continue to learn!

[Clint Losee]

Welcome ThaWhitster231! Thanks for the reply.

Definitely an great story and one I’m sure that many can share. You can’t go wrong with nature! 🙂 That’s awesome with the connection to the Orvis guides for some guidance. I know a few out here in Utah and they are top notch fisherman. I haven’t had the chance to fish Connecticut before, but it’s always been on my bucket list. I drove through the state a few years back with my wife during the Fall and it was just amazing. I definitely need to get back to the area.

If you have any questions or anything you’d like to discuss, start up a new post and we’ll see if we can get this going with some more information. It’s a bit slow going, but hopefully it’ll progress with time.

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