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On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 15:21:10 -0600, rw
wrote:

Peter Charles wrote:
A fishing life offers all sorts of opportunities for mini-epiphanies
and I've recently tripped over one that's worth mentioning.

When I'm out camping or rafting in a remote spot, my custom in the
evening is to take a rod, a reel, a line, and one fly, or sometimes I'll
cheat a bit with a small flybox in my shirt pocket. No tippet, no
hemostats, no net, no vest, no water bottle, no bug repellent, no
floatant, no waders, no nothing but what I absolutely need. It tends to
focus my concentration on the task at hand.

You ****in' pussy! It's MY custom to go stark nekkid, with no gear
whatsoever. I use my large, always-rock-hard dick as a flyrod, and
weave line out of my manly patch of chesthair and leader from my
flowing, sun-kissed yet silk-like mane of hair. I don't need flies
because the fish are so grateful to get a fin on what others would pay a
fortune to merely touch that they bite and hold on to my silken leader.
Of course, being the gallant and magnanimous great American sportsman
that I am, I kiss them and release them with a hearty, "Via con Dios, my
piscine friend!" I have no need to focus my concentration and only need
to pay the merest intention because my incredible brain can concentrate
with laserlike focus on 1423 tasks at once. In fact, last time out, I
built 3 space shuttles with my toes, solved for Kreh times Pi to the nth
power cubed, found 2 blackholes with my eyes alone, and proved that my
good friend Elvis was still alive...

Brian K.

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. . . but it *does* seem a bit odd that such a gear whore can also be a minister
of the minimalist approach. :)

Well, if you saw the Diamondback Classic Trout and the limited edition
CFO, then you'd know that this was just the "subtle" phase of the
gearwhore syndrome. blither mode on . . . No, gearwhoredom has
not been rejected. No, the world has not inverted on its axis (to
which comment, the anthropologist in me says, "Europeans invented the
orientation of the globe as we know it, who says they got it right,
who says there's a right way anyway . . ." But I digress once again
-- minimalism is only a short cast away from nihilism, after all.
Where's Kant when you need him . . . .

[Now where did I put that aspen switch, I knew I put it around here
somewhere.]

blither mode off . . .

Peter

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On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 15:20:30 GMT, Ken Fortenberry
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When you can sit down to the vise, tie up two identical dry flies,
put one on the brim of your hat and the other on the end of your
tippet, then walk down to the stream at precisely the right time
KNOWING that you'll catch as many fish as you care to, that's a
minmalist approach. Of course, if you live right on the stream you
know the flies of the season and have naturals to copy just by
picking them off the screen door. It's quite a bit harder for the
"weekend warrior" who has to travel to the stream.

Almost qualified then -- knew which fly would work but I took an
"experiment" along with me too. Damn, have to do better next time . .
..


Damn, I miss Montana.

Can't help you there.

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On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 15:20:30 GMT, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:



When you can sit down to the vise, tie up two identical dry flies,
put one on the brim of your hat and the other on the end of your
tippet, then walk down to the stream at precisely the right time
KNOWING that you'll catch as many fish as you care to, that's a
minmalist approach. Of course, if you live right on the stream you
know the flies of the season and have naturals to copy just by
picking them off the screen door. It's quite a bit harder for the
"weekend warrior" who has to travel to the stream.

Almost qualified then -- knew which fly would work but I took an
"experiment" along with me too. Damn, have to do better next time . .
..


Damn, I miss Montana.

Can't help you there.

Peter

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On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 14:49:32 -0400, "Frank Reid"
moc.deepselbac@diersicnarf wrote:

A fishing life offers all sorts of opportunities for mini-epiphanies
and I've recently tripped over one that's worth mentioning.

Anti-epiphany - what good is it being a gear whore without being able to
show everyone what a good gear whore you are by wearing a 30 lb vest?
Sheesh. Some people have no respect for the rules. 'Sides, without that
heavy vest, you can easily float down stream in the feeding duck position.


See my reply to Tim J, in essence "Wade light, but carry an expensive
rod."

Peter

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On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 13:36:27 -0500, wrote:



As usual, I had a blast, and it appeared the sports were, too, so I
guess it is a to-each-their-own type of thing...

TC,
R


There has to be phases we go through in our level of encoutrementation
(to butcher a good French word).



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You ****in' pussy! It's MY custom to go stark nekkid, with no gear
whatsoever. I use my large, always-rock-hard dick as a flyrod,

Ya, but I hear that you're only interested in suckers . . .

Peter

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You ****in' pussy! It's MY custom to go stark nekkid, with no gear
whatsoever. I use my large, always-rock-hard dick as a flyrod,

Ya, but I hear that you're only interested in suckers . . .

Peter

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On 06 Aug 2004 21:28:53 GMT, ospam (Big Dale) wrote:

rdean wrote:snipPerhaps the most telling thing about it was going into town(s)
for lunch
or other breaks, and seeing guides loading up sports, all wadered- and
vested-up, with the sports looking at us like we were crazy and us
looking at them similarly.


That part of Colorado around the Taylor River and The Gunnison has a special
place in my heart. Did you catch a few of those pretty cutthroat that grow in
some of the small streams around there?

Yep. Spent almost the whole of the fishing time way up. There was one
stream so high up we only saw one other group of people (and they
weren't fishing - going to CB from Aspen over the pass). We stayed out
of the rivers for the most part (other than the private areas of the
Taylor, much of the Taylor, Gunnison, etc. would have been "dodge the
Duckie"...). The public area just below the Taylor Dam was, as usual,
always full of sport-types uselessly flailing away at the hogs (although
one lucky guy did get a hookup and landing). I've a few pics that I'll
post on ABPF when I can (I'll post a pointer on ROFF).

TC,
R

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On 06 Aug 2004 21:28:53 GMT, ospam (Big Dale) wrote:

rdean wrote:snipPerhaps the most telling thing about it was going into town(s)
for lunch
or other breaks, and seeing guides loading up sports, all wadered- and
vested-up, with the sports looking at us like we were crazy and us
looking at them similarly.


That part of Colorado around the Taylor River and The Gunnison has a special
place in my heart. Did you catch a few of those pretty cutthroat that grow in
some of the small streams around there?

Yep. Spent almost the whole of the fishing time way up. There was one
stream so high up we only saw one other group of people (and they
weren't fishing - going to CB from Aspen over the pass). We stayed out
of the rivers for the most part (other than the private areas of the
Taylor, much of the Taylor, Gunnison, etc. would have been "dodge the
Duckie"...). The public area just below the Taylor Dam was, as usual,
always full of sport-types uselessly flailing away at the hogs (although
one lucky guy did get a hookup and landing). I've a few pics that I'll
post on ABPF when I can (I'll post a pointer on ROFF).

TC,
R