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Jonathan Cook wrote:
You guys are a bunch of inept clumsy dorks! It's amazing you
even catch any fish. I've NEVER looped my flyline around my
rod, had a tangle hit the first guide when shooting line, caught
a loop around a canoe paddle handle, stood on my line while
shooting it, caught my sandal's strap end, hooked my gravel
guard buckle, hooked a bush on the _last_ false cast while
getting that last 5' of needed line out, hooked myself, hit
my wife with flying split shot, had a "wind" knot, or any
thing else you guys can imagine up. No, every cast I throw is
a thing of beauty and grace, I can thread a fly into the
narrowest of openings or under the lowest overhanging branch.
I'll pull my 3wt out in a 20 knot breeze and throw a #8 royal
wulff 70ft as straight as an arrow. Y'all need to lay off ROFF
and put in some off-water practice hours!

Jon.

Just when you begin to think this ng has no single redeeming defect,
along comes a post like this........ :-))

Vaughan

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Jonathan Cook wrote:
You guys are a bunch of inept clumsy dorks! It's amazing you
even catch any fish. I've NEVER looped my flyline around my
rod, had a tangle hit the first guide when shooting line, caught
a loop around a canoe paddle handle, stood on my line while
shooting it, caught my sandal's strap end, hooked my gravel
guard buckle, hooked a bush on the _last_ false cast while
getting that last 5' of needed line out, hooked myself, hit
my wife with flying split shot, had a "wind" knot, or any
thing else you guys can imagine up. No, every cast I throw is
a thing of beauty and grace, I can thread a fly into the
narrowest of openings or under the lowest overhanging branch.
I'll pull my 3wt out in a 20 knot breeze and throw a #8 royal
wulff 70ft as straight as an arrow. Y'all need to lay off ROFF
and put in some off-water practice hours!

Jon.

Just when you begin to think this ng has no single redeeming defect,
along comes a post like this........ :-))

Vaughan

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On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:51:36 GMT, "Wayne Harrison" wrote:


wrote

....off-ROFF emailings, making novices even more self-conscience
about casting, etc.

obroff: that's "self-conscious", you illiterate tejan buffoon!!! ;)

Ahhh...I KNEW "self-conscience" didn't look quite right, but as one might guess,
I don't have any personal experience with it, however it's spelled...

TC,
R

yfitons
wayno

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On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:51:36 GMT, "Wayne Harrison" wrote:


wrote

....off-ROFF emailings, making novices even more self-conscience
about casting, etc.

obroff: that's "self-conscious", you illiterate tejan buffoon!!! ;)

Ahhh...I KNEW "self-conscience" didn't look quite right, but as one might guess,
I don't have any personal experience with it, however it's spelled...

TC,
R

yfitons
wayno

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JR wrote

I don't mean to imply that our way is the only way, or the
better way, or the more virtuous way, or the flower-strewn way to
catching more fish or having more fun. Not even faintly. All I am trying
to say is that we curious fisherfolk fish for many things in many ways;
that we quickly spot any kindred souls, and that this mutual shock of
recognition forms a powerful, forgiving bond even if in other areas we
may be poles apart.

"Forgiving bond." I like that.

JR

i like the whole damn thing. a little elquence goes a long way.

yfitons
wayno

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JR wrote

I don't mean to imply that our way is the only way, or the
better way, or the more virtuous way, or the flower-strewn way to
catching more fish or having more fun. Not even faintly. All I am trying
to say is that we curious fisherfolk fish for many things in many ways;
that we quickly spot any kindred souls, and that this mutual shock of
recognition forms a powerful, forgiving bond even if in other areas we
may be poles apart.

"Forgiving bond." I like that.

JR

i like the whole damn thing. a little elquence goes a long way.

yfitons
wayno

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wrote:
"Tim J." wrote in message
news:qcNcd.490749$8_6.183085@attbi_s04...

How deep are you digging this hole, Steve?

I do believe the boy is trying to reach Asia.

Wayne

Man is sucks having to use google for this at work, no telling what's
transpired in the past eight hours on this baby!

Try using the Groups 2 Beta site: http://groups-beta.google.com/
It seems to be almost real-time.
--
TL,
Tim
------------------------
http://css.sbcma.com/timj

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wrote:
"Tim J." wrote in message
news:qcNcd.490749$8_6.183085@attbi_s04...

How deep are you digging this hole, Steve?

I do believe the boy is trying to reach Asia.

Wayne

Man is sucks having to use google for this at work, no telling what's
transpired in the past eight hours on this baby!

Try using the Groups 2 Beta site: http://groups-beta.google.com/
It seems to be almost real-time.
--
TL,
Tim
------------------------
http://css.sbcma.com/timj

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On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 21:12:25 -0600, rw
wrote:

It's a cliche to say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but like
many cliches, it contains an element of truth.

I was privileged to observe one of the masters of fly fishing
presentation, ROFF's own Dave LaCourse, demonstrating his subtle
knowledge on the famous Kiddie Hole of the San Juan River in New Mexico.
Dave was gracious enough, in his characteristic, self effacing manner,
to allow me to capture one photograph that clearly shows two major
no-nos of presentation. Please examine the photo carefully:

http://www.ruralnetwork.net/~troutbum/web/****heel.jpg

The first no-no, which should be immediately obvious to anyone who has
flyfished more than once in his or her life, is that you should never
allow the flyline to wrap itself around the butt section of the rod.
Doing so will inevitably result in the loss of a football, within five
seconds of hookup at most. Dave would have hooked up with a football on
the very next cast, but he was fishing the Kiddie Hole, which is known
for it's quantity of beat up fish, and not it's quality, footballwise.

The second major no-no, which might not be immediately obvious to a
newbie flyfishing tyro, is that you should not twist your flyline into a
grotesque snarl. To be perfectly honest, I don't know how Dave managed
to do this. Perhaps he was preparing for a left-handed snake-roll spey cast.

Can't ya just feel the camraderie?

/daytripper (smells like....no, not Team Spirit, that's for sure ;-)

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Dave I though that cold water wadeing was your cure for erectile
disfunction????????


Handyman Mike
Standing in a river waving a stick