Sometimes the fish don't care if you can actually fly fish or not. When the grasshopper bite is on or a good stone fly hatch is happening all you have to do is get your fly in the water close to a good spot.

I'll tell you this, I don't look pretty flailing away with a fly rod in my hand but I can get the fly where it needs to be sometimes.

Patrick McManus wrote a damn funny story (lots of them actually) about fly fisherman looking thoughtful and bemused while on the river. It covers up the fact that they don't know how to fly fish. Ya need to get a pipe to smoke though. All fly fisherman smoke pipes while looking thoughtful and bemused ;)

MT