Originally Posted by
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Jesse
Your point about gear type ego reminds me of an incident from about 15 years ago. I was flyfishing a small slough off a very popular salmon stream. There were a bunch of silvers mixed into a huge school of humpies and I was patiently working the silvers and being very successful.
A guy walked by with his young son and the little guy was stretched out reaching for Dad's finger to hold. When they got past me the father squatted and proceeded to tell his son you could tell I was a snagger because I was using a fly rod! I nearly choked.
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