fly fishers as elitists
 

"snakefiddler"
what gives? ya'll got a reputation or somethin? ;-)

snakefiddler



kinda.....but I've been trying to keep a low profile and hope it would go
away.

john

fly fishers as elitists
 

"Asadi" wrote in message
link.net...

"snakefiddler"
what gives? ya'll got a reputation or somethin? ;-)

snakefiddler



kinda.....but I've been trying to keep a low profile and hope it would go
away.

john



yeah, me too ;-)
snake

fly fishers as elitists
 

rw wrote in message om...
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After you've put in your dues, which takes years, you'll
sometimes outfish the lower classes and always have more fun and
satisfaction in the doing.

Actually, after you've really put in your dues, you eventually
get over the rooky impulse to regard anything not
fly fishing as somehow inferior. The mature fisherman
is a master of all techniques, who chooses, at any given
moment, the technique of his (her?) choice.

For instance, just yesterday I drifted a stretch brown-colored
canyon water, swollen and roilly after three weeks of cold
weather and heavy rain. The river was almost empty...most fly
fishermen assumed it was hopeless, perhaps.

I fished it from a driftboat, using an 8wt rod with a 12' leader
with a 40lb butt,
attached to a soft, flexible, molded plastic sculpin, a Carolina-rig
worm hook, a plastic bead and a Colorado Spinner blade,
attached to a plastic clevis. I didn't knock'em dead, but
I did catch some very nice fish, casting with pin-point
accuracy to obvious eddies and runs....and I did it
with a fly rod. One important disadvantage of a spinning
rod--in situations like that--is the need to reel the lure
all the way back to the rod tip between casts. With the flyrod
you can pick the lure up and throw it back down at a distance,
so you can pick off each good looking eddy as drift along.

It takes experience and mastery to know how to do that.
And a lack of silly, irrelevant, immature predudice. :-)

tweed my good man?
 

and what is wrong with tweed may I ask
from Edinburgh Scotland

"snakefiddler" wrote in message
...
so the guys i work with in the campus library have been teasing me about
fly
fishin, saying that now i won't hang out with the "regular" fisherman
anymore, and that i'll start fishin with the upper echelon of the
university, and will start wearing tweed........ and other **** like that.

what gives? ya'll got a reputation or somethin? ;-)

snakefiddler

tweed my good man?
 

"jim crawford" wrote in message
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and what is wrong with tweed may I ask
from Edinburgh Scotland

Nothing wrong with tweed, good fellow, as long as it's Harris. BTW, the
'fiddler is of the female gender and resides in North Carolina. That, you
recall, was the refuge for Flora McDonald in hard times.

Uncle Mac McCaskill
Proud Scot until the Highland Clearances ;-).

tweed my good man?
 

"Uncle Mac" wrote in message
hlink.net...

"jim crawford" wrote in message
...
and what is wrong with tweed may I ask
from Edinburgh Scotland

Nothing wrong with tweed, good fellow, as long as it's Harris. BTW, the
'fiddler is of the female gender and resides in North Carolina. That,
you
recall, was the refuge for Flora McDonald in hard times.

Uncle Mac McCaskill



Proud Scot until the Highland Clearances ;-).

most excellent tag line ;-)
snakefiddler

tweed my good man?
 

Uncle Mac wrote:


Uncle Mac McCaskill
Proud Scot until the Highland Clearances ;-).


are you any relation to the McCaskills from Troy, Alabama?

jeff (1st wife was a mccaskill - as fine a family as i've ever known)

tweed my good man?
 

"Jeff" wrote in message are you any relation to the
McCaskills from Troy, Alabama?

jeff (1st wife was a mccaskill - as fine a family as i've ever known)

All McCaskills were a sub clan of the McLeods of Skye. Some are still
there. Others were dispersed during the clearances to North Carolina,
Georgia, Nova Scotia, Australia, and anywhere refugees could settle. I
assume Alabama, severly needing "new blood" for breeding purposes, offered
several tax advantages for the penniless immigrants ;-). We may be related
to the Alabama clan, just several generations removed.

tweed my good man?
 

In article k.net,
Uncle Mac wrote:

Nothing wrong with tweed, good fellow, as long as it's Harris.

What's wrong with Donegal?

Lazarus

--
Remover the rock from the email address

tweed my good man?
 

"Lazarus Cooke" wrote in message
om...

What's wrong with Donegal?

May I get back with you on that? It appears as if I must take a trip to the
County Donegal to investigate. BTW, how's the trout fishing in Donegal? I
really have to have another reason for going, you know.