Well put Rojo. With the clouds yesterday, it was very difficult to see fish until they were right under the boat.
My biggest struggle was with the pace and change of direction. The guide would say "Ok, I'm pointing at him, he's 10 feet behind the boat - his head is facing away from you toward about 4 o'clock."
So now I have to:
-do a 180;
-get the fly line untangled;
-strip in 5 feet because I have too much line out;
try to spot the fish (intermittent clouds make that harder); and
deliver a halfway decent cast.
As easy as I'm sure it is for everyone else in the world, that's a lot of shit to do. After I would botch it the guide would say "that was pretty workable stuff but we need a sense of urgency, much too slow."
Give me a tailing fish, 25 feet out, at 10 o'clock, moving left to right slowly, and I'm Flip Pallot. We didn't see too many of those. We had a good enough trip that i'll be back again and again for that stuff. Much fun.