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Fly Fishing


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2022 Sep 11, 11:54am   1,339 views  22 comments

by WookieMan   ➕follow (1)   💰tip   ignore  

First time. It was gay. What a waste of energy and time. Beautiful location though. Most I’ll dox myself with my name. Buddy made it for me.

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1   Ceffer   2022 Sep 11, 11:58am  

WookieMan says

First time. It was gay. What a waste of energy and time.

What, did you hook some MonkeyPox trout?
2   clambo   2022 Sep 11, 6:58pm  

I did some salmon fishing in rivers in Quebec, Canada.
I was cold and didn't really care but I was a guest of a rich guy who had a house on a river he called a "camp".
I was told that most of the fish had to be released, but we could keep a "grilse". Of course I can't tell the difference.
I had no idea what the attraction was to this activity but the house was wonderful and had staff to cook and take care of us.
3   komputodo   2022 Sep 11, 8:19pm  

to me, fly fishing is the upper echelon of fishing. A skill and an art.
4   just_passing_through   2022 Sep 11, 9:28pm  

What is the point of catching flies?
5   WookieMan   2022 Sep 11, 9:39pm  

komputodo says

to me, fly fishing is the upper echelon of fishing. A skill and an art.

Yuppie for sure. My setup/gear was $1k. To fish….Fortunately it was a friend so all borrowed gear.
6   Ceffer   2022 Sep 11, 10:06pm  

It's an excuse to enjoy a beautiful spot. 'Nuff said.
7   richwicks   2022 Sep 12, 1:39am  

Ceffer says


It's an excuse to enjoy a beautiful spot. 'Nuff said.


Why waste in on fishing?

My family has a beautiful spot, it's nice to canoe around on, but I'd never waste my time fishing there. A beautiful spot is a place to explore, not a place to fish. I hate fishing. Fishing is what you do when you get bored with the beautiful spot you've explored already.

I'm going to plug the area I grew up in. Go to the Adirondacks, AVOID the tourist traps, just go to any random shithole town, and hang the fuck out and explore the area. Learn to use a compass and a map though first, seriously, or you might just die there. It's very simple. Bring an emergency blanket and water, and the worst thing that will happen is you will be trapped in the middle of literally nowhere, over night, but you know ABOUT where you are, and you make your way back to the road. Get to the road, flag down a car, ask where you are, and at worst you're 10 miles from where you started normally, unless you ended up on the other side of where you started out, that could be 60 miles. Have a couple hundred bugs to bribe anybody that is nice enough to help you.

GPS IS NOT A FUCKING REPLACEMENT FOR A COMPASS AND A MAP. GPS will not work under the canopy of trees, you will not reach a cell tower, turn your phone OFF when you go into the wildness, it will rapidly deplete the battery trying to find a tower, and I mean your normal phone that runs find for 24 hours, will last 2 hours once it loses signal. You'll feel this, it will become a toaster in your pocket. Turn your phone off when you are hiking, don't just put it in airplane mode, turn it off.

Also, your phone, no MATTER what it claims, is not a compass. A compass is a compass, a phone is a bunch of novel technologies, and the "gps feature" is somebody that they don't give a damned about to make work. Believe me on this one. There's no decent electronic compass. Electrons are zipping all over it, in a board, nobody really uses it, nobody designs phones to have a reliable useful compass, because you assholes don't know it doesn't work. When is the last time you made use of your compass in your phone? You NEVER did. Get a real compass. They are 10 dollars. Get a real map, they are like $5. Learn to read a map. Align the compass with NORTH on the map (this is when you place the compass over the circle the indicates north), when your needle matches, that's your orientation. Your position? You guess that, but you can at least see "if I go south/north/east/west (whatever) I'm bound to hit the river/road/gulch/SomethingThatIsABigLongLineSortOf"

I'm experienced in the Adirondacks, as a kid I was stupid, as an adult, I always carried water I didn't need, and an emergency blanket, they are just a few bucks. Never had to use them, but I have had to use a compass and a map to find my way out. Being lost is terrifying, because if I went in the wrong direction, I was dead. You need to follow a straight line, and find a road. I can do it by the sun, and stars now, but you can't.
8   PeopleUnited   2022 Sep 12, 7:42am  

Richwichs must have gotten out of the wrong side of the bed this morning!
9   Tenpoundbass   2022 Sep 12, 8:20am  

"Dad, when are the fish going to bite?"
"Patience Son! It's called "fishing", not "catching fish". "

Why I would reckon, you're still fishing, if you went to a scenic spot with all of your fishing gear, and never once put a hook in the water, as long as the gear is with you, and you are situated to where you have access to cast your lines.
The store is full of fish, and in this upside down world where the environment is controlled by Commies, You might get mercury or lead poisoning eating fresh water fish.
10   WookieMan   2022 Sep 12, 9:53am  

So I was the cooler carrier. I gave up fishing. Still a good time with friends in the middle of no where with no cell service.

We laughed like never before. Lost $50 gambling and ended up $100 at the end of the night. Good times. BZN is on fire. You CA boys and your fires. Bridgers are gone. Can’t see ‘em. All smoke from your region in CA, WA, ID and OR
11   Ceffer   2022 Sep 12, 10:12am  

Cooler carrier made you royalty on the trip. They would feed you their fish in tribute.
12   richwicks   2022 Sep 12, 1:15pm  

PeopleUnited says


Richwichs must have gotten out of the wrong side of the bed this morning!


I had to fly to Wisconsin, my flight out was at 5:30 am on Friday. I have been sleep deprived the entire weekend.

But I hate fishing. I consider it a waste of time. From the point of view of hanging out with people, yeah, I can see that, but it's much more interesting to hang out with people and explore and hang out with people. I grew up in the sticks, and I'd much prefer to wander though the forest. But realize the danger. Don't treat it lightly. Understand how to deal with quicksand if it's around, learn to read a map and use a compass (this takes a few minutes), understand what is around you are predators.

I'm always pissed off when some idiot wanderers go camping or hiking, and ends up dying. It's simple to avoid, PROVIDED you learn a few rules. Learn to use a compass and always have a map, even a crudely drawn hand map will do as long as it's somewhat accurate.

Where I grew up:

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.9891038,-74.8854794,69834m/data=!3m1!1e3

This is the little tiny town I grew up in:

https://goo.gl/maps/mgDgxLmoxwKhvqtcA

South East is Death. No civilization for 10's of miles, no roads. Just wilderness. You think "10 miles, big deal" - well you've never walked through brush. I have. I've walked a MILE though brush and when I got home despite having clothing, I was bloody, I had burrs in my clothing, and I didn't care, I was happy to be back.

You see how distant roads are from one another, and how sparsely populated it is? I can deal with it, you have any idea how HUGE the Adirondack state park is? I do. You fuck up, and if you don't have some idea where roads are, and where water is, you're dead.

Still a lot more fun than fishing. Nature is a awesome, but it's not your friend. It doesn't give a shit about you.
13   B.A.C.A.H.   2022 Sep 12, 2:52pm  

WookieMan says

Still a good time with friends

This is why we do pointless silly pastimes.

Like when I played golf when I was young.
14   EBGuy   2022 Sep 12, 3:03pm  

richwicks says

Learn to use a compass and always have a map, even a crudely drawn hand map will do as long as it's somewhat accurate.

Kids in CA have a PE requirement. Can be covered with sports, a school class, or clubs. Pretty cool that orienteering is one way to obtain credits. Not rocket science, but at least you get experience with a compass and operating between way points in various parks. As a relative in the military said, "Now try it in the dark..."
15   WookieMan   2022 Sep 12, 3:10pm  

B.A.C.A.H. says

WookieMan says


Still a good time with friends

This is why we do pointless silly pastimes.

Like when I played golf when I was young.

Golf is fun. Doing a scramble with friends and parents of my friends Saturday. Reconnect with people. I can’t shoot for shit anymore though. Think I need shoulder surgery. Play one of the cooler courses in IL (not best condition wise).

Montana was fun though. Denver is going to shit. Sitting here now. Kansas City was my least favorite airport. Denver is winning that race. I don’t even check bags either.
16   WookieMan   2022 Sep 12, 3:18pm  

Ceffer says

WookieMan says


First time. It was gay. What a waste of energy and time.

What, did you hook some MonkeyPox trout?

Lol. I didn’t hook shit. I don’t have the patience for it.

Also was supposed to be a guys trip. One buddy invited a complete shit head and his 25 year old girlfriend (not attractive). Kind of still pissed. Took everything to not deck him and I’m not a fighter.

So yeah $1,500 pissed away for an average trip.
17   Ceffer   2022 Sep 12, 4:20pm  

A lot of the computer games I play have fishing parts where you can angle and hook fish to buy resources. Boring as shit in the computer games, too, except eradicating fish that bite and attack you.
18   B.A.C.A.H.   2022 Sep 12, 6:58pm  

I have a relative in rural Oklahoma who is an expert in hooking fish there. He explained it to me. Though in his explanation he never made reference to hunting land animals (which he's also expert at), what he explained sounded more like hunting. When he comes to a new fishing spot, he spends a lot more time surveying the place than doing the actual fishing. When he's done surveying, he seems to have a vision of what things look like under water, and inside the minds of the fish where the local fish (crappie, bass, catfish) would like to swim or hide out. More of an intellectual exercise than anything else. When he was young he also was quite successful at noodling.

A friend, a lifelong Bay Area Silicon Valley techie, is obsessed with Bass Fishing. Same sort of thing; it's kind of like hunting or stalking. More time and effort spent doing that than catching the fish. He got so obsessed with Bass Fishing that he relocated to one of those communities on the Delta where he got a waterfront McMansion.
19   HeadSet   2022 Sep 12, 7:16pm  

B.A.C.A.H. says

When he was young he also was quite successful at noodling.

I lived in Oklahoma for 6 years. I noticed that all the serious noodlers had scars on their arms. The catfish bite back.
20   B.A.C.A.H.   2022 Sep 12, 7:16pm  

HeadSet says


all the serious noodlers had scars on their arms. The catfish bite back.

Yeah, he got some of those. It's more from getting "wiskered" than bit. When the catfish is grabbed it will wildly swing its head to scrape you with its whiskers that have little barbs.

The bite hazard is quite real, though. The catfish like to lurk in holes that may instead have a snapping turtle in residence. Noodlers may get their thumbs and fingers snapped off if they encounter a snapper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okie_Noodling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOp4WUr5JqY
21   richwicks   2022 Sep 12, 10:23pm  

EBGuy says


Pretty cool that orienteering is one way to obtain credits.


Orienteering is an interesting sport. My sister and her husband got me into it. Find a sport, with just a compass and a map, in a forest. Fun sport, good education.

EBGuy says

Kids in CA have a PE requiremen


Taking this out of order.

I'm in California. I'm scrambling to find a place to help my friend raise kids outside of this education system. We are one of the worst.
22   WookieMan   2022 Sep 13, 8:19am  

Ceffer says

WookieMan says


First time. It was gay. What a waste of energy and time.

What, did you hook some MonkeyPox trout?

Lol. I'm just not a fisherman. Took 2 of my buddies about 1 hour to set up 5 rods. That's work. That's not fun. Didn't realize the expense either. One guy had a $600 rod. The fuck?

I just decided to become the bartender and dish out beers and seltzers as people got thirsty. I had more fun I think.

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