Life's little frustrations...

...holding the rod at a 45 degree angle, I carefully thread the flyline thru
all the guides, making sure not to miss one as I occasionally do. Finally
with the leader and line thru the tiptop I stand the rod up to begin tying
on the bug of the day. Then, with the sibilant sound of silk panties
sliding down a milky white thigh, the damned flyline winds up in loose
coils on the ground and I have to start over. Am I the only putz who has to
learn this lesson of gravity and slick flylines time and again thru the
years? It is even more frustrating in the dawn's early light when I can
hear bass feeding in the lilypads. Never, in all the years I have been
fishing does the excitement of about to fish a new day wane. It's still
there and I hope it never goes away.

Frank Church
...who's been putzing it for decades...

"Frank Church" wrote in message
9.11...

..holding the rod at a 45 degree angle, I carefully thread the flyline
thru
all the guides, making sure not to miss one as I occasionally do. Finally
with the leader and line thru the tiptop I stand the rod up to begin tying
on the bug of the day. Then, with the sibilant sound of silk panties
sliding down a milky white thigh, the damned flyline winds up in loose
coils on the ground and I have to start over. Am I the only putz who has
to

Double the line near the butt of the leader,
i.e. lead through the guides with a loop of
leader 6 feet or more from the tippet. If
you lose your grip, the line is unlikely to
unthread itself.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)

"Don Phillipson" wrote in message
Double the line near the butt of the leader,
i.e. lead through the guides with a loop of
leader 6 feet or more from the tippet. If
you lose your grip, the line is unlikely to
unthread itself.

I typically use the nail knot to thread the guides, but gravity still wins
if I let go. :-)

Joe F.

Frank Church wrote:

..holding the rod at a 45 degree angle, I carefully thread the flyline thru
all the guides, making sure not to miss one as I occasionally do. Finally
with the leader and line thru the tiptop I stand the rod up to begin tying
on the bug of the day. Then, with the sibilant sound of silk panties
sliding down a milky white thigh, the damned flyline winds up in loose
coils on the ground and I have to start over. Am I the only putz who has to
learn this lesson of gravity and slick flylines time and again thru the
years? It is even more frustrating in the dawn's early light when I can
hear bass feeding in the lilypads. Never, in all the years I have been
fishing does the excitement of about to fish a new day wane. It's still
there and I hope it never goes away.

Frank Church
..who's been putzing it for decades...

What's even worse is when you forget that the line has slipped back
through the guides and you tie on a fly -- a big, bushy one. I've done
that a couple of times.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

Frank Church wrote:
..holding the rod at a 45 degree angle, I carefully thread the flyline thru
all the guides, making sure not to miss one as I occasionally do. Finally
with the leader and line thru the tiptop I stand the rod up to begin tying
on the bug of the day. Then, with the sibilant sound of silk panties
sliding down a milky white thigh, the damned flyline winds up in loose
coils on the ground and I have to start over.

I think you and the wife need to spend some time "quality" together!
Although fly fishing does evoke many pleasant feelings for me, erotic
feelings aren't one of them.


Am I the only putz who has to
learn this lesson of gravity and slick flylines time and again thru the
years? It is even more frustrating in the dawn's early light when I can
hear bass feeding in the lilypads. Never, in all the years I have been
fishing does the excitement of about to fish a new day wane. It's still
there and I hope it never goes away.

Frank Church
..who's been putzing it for decades...


You could do what I do, keep your rod strung up and stored in a case
made to hold a rod broken down into two pieces but with the reel
attached and the line already strung with a fly attached.

Willi

"Frank Church" wrote in message
9.11...
//snip// on the bug of the day. Then, with the sibilant sound of silk
panties
sliding down a milky white thigh, the damned flyline winds up in loose
coils on the ground and I have to start over. Am I the only putz who has
to
learn this lesson of gravity and slick flylines time and again thru the
years? It is even more frustrating in the dawn's early light when I can
//snip//


I don't think I ever quite made the simile to silk panties etc. . . OTOH,
has the sound of silk panties sliding down a milky white thigh reminded me
of fly line piling up in a loose coil on the ground? Hmmmmm.

Bob
Trying to remember.

On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 20:54:36 GMT, "Sandy"
wrote:

Willi wrote:

You could do what I do, keep your rod strung up and stored in a case
made to hold a rod broken down into two pieces but with the reel
attached and the line already strung with a fly attached.

Willi


I'm glad to see I'm not the only one to do that I can't remember the last
time I put my rod away without line and flies attached,

Same here.
--
Charlie...

"rb608" wrote in
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I typically use the nail knot to thread the guides, but gravity still
wins if I let go. :-)


As Don says Joe, the loop of line will hang up on a guide should the big
G gain the upper hand. Unless you have tags or loops on the nail then
its deja vu all over again.

;-)

I'm not sure this is Frank's problem theough ... I think the tippet gets
away during the tie on process ... pull a rod length or more of line
through Frank before trying to tie on ... or stand there with the nail
knot between your teeth (if it helps to imagine it is a rose ... okay ;-)
and then tie one on.

;-)

Steve

"Stephen Welsh" wrote in message
. 1.4...
"rb608" wrote in
:




I typically use the nail knot to thread the guides, but gravity still
wins if I let go. :-)


As Don says Joe, the loop of line will hang up on a guide should the big
G gain the upper hand. Unless you have tags or loops on the nail then
its deja vu all over again.

;-)

I'm not sure this is Frank's problem theough ... I think the tippet gets
away during the tie on process ... pull a rod length or more of line
through Frank before trying to tie on ... or stand there with the nail
knot between your teeth (if it helps to imagine it is a rose ... okay ;-)
and then tie one on.

;-)

Interesting......but, if I read Frank right, everyone seems to be mistaking
a minor (if nevertheless annoying) symptom for the disease.

Wolfgang
who, espying a likely looking spot on one memorable opening day, began to
cast before he remembered that he had neglected to strip line or leader off
the reel, let alone string any of it through the guides.

"Wolfgang" wrote in
:

who, espying a likely looking spot on one memorable opening day, began
to cast before he remembered that he had neglected to strip line or
leader off the reel, let alone string any of it through the guides.




Ah yes. I've not gone quite that far ... tied a fly on to an unthreaded
line and leader ... even somehow managed to flick a cast that had only had
half the the blood knot tied ... cast sailed off the leader butt, landed
ever so gently and sank with all hands. A similar thing has happened in
the other direction as well ... at least I found that rig.


Steve (the unexpected appearance of one's quarry will do that ;-)