An epiphany on the road to Whitemans

On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 18:07:57 -0400, Peter Charles
wrote:


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

Naw...but I DO catch my share of suckers...hell, some, like the Masked
Man from Ketchum, Jr. just jump in the boat...

Brian K.
BTW...anyone else wonder where Ernestine keeps his cape when astream a
la mode Wonder Woman...

On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 18:07:57 -0400, Peter Charles
wrote:


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

Naw...but I DO catch my share of suckers...hell, some, like the Masked
Man from Ketchum, Jr. just jump in the boat...

Brian K.
BTW...anyone else wonder where Ernestine keeps his cape when astream a
la mode Wonder Woman...

Take out the dirty commie *******s to reply wrote:
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 15:21:10 -0600, rw
wrote:


You ****in' pussy! It's MY custom to go stark nekkid, with no gear
whatsoever.

That's an unwise choice, because you need some clothes to cover up your
tiny little pecker and your bitch tits.

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

On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 21:08:34 -0600, rw
wrote:

Take out the dirty commie *******s to reply wrote:
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 15:21:10 -0600, rw
wrote:


You ****in' pussy! It's MY custom to go stark nekkid, with no gear
whatsoever.

That's an unwise choice, because you need some clothes to cover up your
tiny little pecker and your bitch tits.

Oh, yeah? Well, I'm rubber and you're glue, and everything you say
bounces off me and sticks to you! Whatsamatta, Sgt. Mitty and the boys
in the band not giving you a good enough ass-pounding as of late? Maybe
some HRT would help, or is it just remembrances of that time of the
month?

YFICSPB,
Brian

PS: I'd rip the shirt off my rippling muscles and lay you out like an
undernourished mackerel, Ernestine...

On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 21:08:34 -0600, rw
wrote:

Take out the dirty commie *******s to reply wrote:
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 15:21:10 -0600, rw
wrote:


You ****in' pussy! It's MY custom to go stark nekkid, with no gear
whatsoever.

That's an unwise choice, because you need some clothes to cover up your
tiny little pecker and your bitch tits.

Oh, yeah? Well, I'm rubber and you're glue, and everything you say
bounces off me and sticks to you! Whatsamatta, Sgt. Mitty and the boys
in the band not giving you a good enough ass-pounding as of late? Maybe
some HRT would help, or is it just remembrances of that time of the
month?

YFICSPB,
Brian

PS: I'd rip the shirt off my rippling muscles and lay you out like an
undernourished mackerel, Ernestine...

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 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.

Every time I have had an epiphany, I soon got a come-uppence. Just when I
thought I had things figured out, whammo the trout prove me wrong again. So,
after 50 years of flyfishing, I just take the good times with bad and enjoy
it all, cause the bad aren't bad at all. But, I have taken a minimalist
approach to the number of flies I carry. I'm a firm believer in general
shape and size with proper presentation. I carry goddard and elk-hair
caddis, a "gray thing" dry fly (similar to an adams) all in sizes 14-20 and
a few midge flies (mostly my own designs) in 22-26. I don't always get
them, but rarely is anyone else either, when I'm not.

Gene

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

"Why do we fish?" For all of us, it's more than just catching fish,
but the "catching" is always required somewhere in the mix. The
social aspects plus the opportunity to innovate has always been much
higher than "catching", on my priority list. As is obvious with such
priorities, my "catching" suffers. Frankly, I don't put nearly as
much effort into it as I should. But when I ask this hard question
again, am I ordering my priorities this way because they suit me or in
part because I don't want to make the effort to move beyond an average
level of "catching"? In other words, am I hiding behind my priorities
to save myself the bother of doing the "catching" right?

Enter the minimalist angler as a highly effective angler. I've always
loaded myself up with bulging vest, stuffed pockets, spare spools,
spare rods in the car, all precautions against not having the right
thing to satisfy picky trout. But this load of gear is really a
recognition that I haven't taken the time, haven't made the effort to
know what I'm doing. I have burdened myself physically with armloads
of gear to avoid having to take on the mental burden of selecting just
what is necessary and no more -- to avoid having to know what I'm
doing.

So here I am on Whitemans, wet wading, one small fly box, one spool of
tippet, one rod, one reel, and thinking about what I am actually doing
instead of just chucking the contents of multiple flyboxes at
unimpressed fish. Before I left the house, I had decided where I
would fish using the right bug for that water, time of day, and at
that point in the season. Bingo, epiphany time. By forcing a
minimalist approach, I have to really know what I'm doing as there's
no margin for error. I've stripped away the excuses, the multiple
flybox crutches, and faced the fish armed with a handful of flies and
my wits. Stripped of the superfluous gear, I'm reading water,
examining bugs, search bankside bushes, catching fish, and in the
process, discover that there's an amazing mental clarity to the
minimalist approach.

Is it more fun? You betchya.

On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 02:36:27 GMT, "Gene Cottrell"
wrote:

Every time I have had an epiphany, I soon got a come-uppence. Just when I
thought I had things figured out, whammo the trout prove me wrong again. So,
after 50 years of flyfishing, I just take the good times with bad and enjoy
it all, cause the bad aren't bad at all. But, I have taken a minimalist
approach to the number of flies I carry. I'm a firm believer in general
shape and size with proper presentation. I carry goddard and elk-hair
caddis, a "gray thing" dry fly (similar to an adams) all in sizes 14-20 and
a few midge flies (mostly my own designs) in 22-26. I don't always get
them, but rarely is anyone else either, when I'm not.

Gene

No illusiopns, no illusions at all. I figure if I get it right more
than half the time, I'm doin' OK.



Peter

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Peter Charles wrote:


So here I am on Whitemans, wet wading, one small fly box, one spool of
tippet, one rod, one reel, and thinking about what I am actually doing
instead of just chucking the contents of multiple flyboxes at
unimpressed fish. Before I left the house, I had decided where I
would fish using the right bug for that water, time of day, and at
that point in the season. Bingo, epiphany time. By forcing a
minimalist approach, I have to really know what I'm doing as there's
no margin for error. I've stripped away the excuses, the multiple
flybox crutches, and faced the fish armed with a handful of flies and
my wits. Stripped of the superfluous gear, I'm reading water,
examining bugs, search bankside bushes, catching fish, and in the
process, discover that there's an amazing mental clarity to the
minimalist approach.

Is it more fun? You betchya.


I think that's just a mental thing and not a function of carrying alot
or just a small amount of stuff.



I've gone from one extreme to another, a number of times over the years.


If I'm fishing my home river and I'm doing a short outing, I usually
will take a small flybox, reading glasses, a spool of tippet and a pair
of nippers and stick em in a shirt pocket. Sometimes if I'm going out
for a hour or two in the evening, I just go with my rod with the fly
tied on that I'm going to fish. If I lose the fly, I'm done. But
sometimes I'll throw on my vest.

For small waters I that I'm going to hike into, I've started wearing a
small fanny pack that holds a couple fly boxes, tippet, nippers, reading
glasses, my camera, floatant, dessicant, weight as well as a rainjacket,
some food, TP and a water filter bottle. I'm pleased with how it's
worked. It's comfortable and pretty convenient.

Then there's my vest. I don't like a vest to feel like a backpack and I
try and keep down the weight. If you want, you can packed an incredible
assortment of stuff that you MIGHT need into a vest. I've settled on a
middle of the road approach for quite a few years where I carry a big
enough assortment of gear to cover just about any trout situation and
still have a vest that's comfortable to wear over a long day.

Willi