There is a tendency for practitioners of a fine art to become bogged down in a rut and believe that they have reached the ultimate of their endeavors, and then write a book about their activities. This is very worthwhile, but is often far from the extended truth.
To get out of the rut you have to travel the world with an open mind and see how things are done elsewhere geographically and in other cultures. This applies to anything, be it painting, quilting, house decoration, cooking, drinking, music, hospitality and, not least of all, trout fishing.
One advantage of traveling is that you have to leave all your beloved books behind, except one travel guide book, to inform you where you are at any moment and might go to tomorrow.
After awhile this compels you to have an open mind; and then you absorb new ideas, whilst old dogmas fade away. I found this to be so whilst trying to catch trout as a backpacker.
Backpacker fishing is quite different from the "conventional wisdom" of trout fishing.
It is a new challenge!
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Foto: A nice brownie caught spin fishing on the Rio Coihaique in fiordland Chile.
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