Guy says - "There's no fish in this river"

[Gardenfish]

Ha! Me and twenty-six small wild rainbows might disagree with him. All caught with my 1 wt. on a wet squirrel tail hair fly of my design.

I was standing in front of my home discussing fly fishing with a neighbor. I was wearing my fishing duds and holding my rod when the naysayer drove by. My friend remarked, "They will be biting this time of day" at which point I walked two and a half blocks to the river, assembled the rod, and tied on the fly. Sometimes being right is a lovely and sweet thing.

[Gnu Bee Flyer]

Bin dere done dat . Don't ya just love it .
When confronted with the truth they always say , well there never used to be any fish there .
If ever us kids could prove my Mom wrong She would give us a blue star .

Gardenfish gets a blue star .

[check your fly]

I love those rivers with no fish in them. They are never crowded.

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Chuck Hitt

[Royal Wulff]

Gardenfish, RW here

He probably snickered about the 1-weight too, but I guess you got the last laught..lol
Nice catch.


"All for one (wt.) and One (wt.) for all"

Later, R1W

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"We fish for pleasure; I for mine, you for yours." -James Leisenring on fishing the wet fly-

[EdD]

Living two and a half blocks from a trout stream sounds like a "lovely and sweet thing" too. <sigh>

[ohiotuber]

Ya gotta love those "there's no fish in there" types. I honestly feel that the ONLY thing that devoids any river of fish is serious polution. If someone says that to me, it's waving a red flag at a bull!! They just want you to go somewhere else (other than THEIR spot)!!
Mike

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"I've HAD muh say!".....
George MacMichael from The Real Mccoys

[rrhyne56]

sadly there are no longer any fish in the Paluxy River down here by Glen Rose TX. But its a great place to go sight seeing! Just don't bring your fishing rod, what would be the point?

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[Gardenfish]

last year I caught one trout, and this year I caught several dozen. It seems that the river is recovering. No stocking has been done for ten years. I am fortunate indeed and grateful. Maybe next year I will need my 3 wt. I wish I had a digital camera to show you all this wonderful stream.

[white43]

You don't need to be talking about a trout stream to have "no fish in there" comments. Here in Western MN there are some no-name lakes with some very nice LMB lurking in the weeds. One "little wetland" I stopped by a few years ago simply because there was some protection from the wind, and put a popper between a floating log and a bit of a dropoff on the bank and had a heart-stopping moment. Two days later, when the winds died down, I was in there with a canoe and a buddy who'd passed by the place dozens of times going elsewhere. We had a wonderful day. That's not the only place where that has happened. JGW

[fcch]

LoL !!! ...

On saturday afternonn, ... I dropped my girlfriend off on a run, ... ran back to camp to get the canoe paddles ...

When I got back ... there was a fellow and his wife watching Renee casting.

"Why she fishin' there, ... ain't no fish there" ...

"Well sir, ... you just never know" ... as I go down to rejoin her, ... she hooks into a nice light snack.


(Ren?e on the #8 - Sept 2005)

p.s. ... trout was for supper, ... so that's why it is OUT of the water for the photo.

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Christopher Chin, Jonquiere Quebec
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