Are You a Hardcore Trout Angler?

FAOL Community Sound Off
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Are You A Hardcore Trout Angler?
Does your vehicle smell like fish because your net has been used so many times it reeks?

Will you almost stand on your head to land a nice fish?

If a snow storm does not deter you.

Have you crawled up to a nice hole and cast from the prone position?

Have you been disappointed when you didn’t cast into the mess far enough?

Have you layer up so much you can barely get your arms to your side?

Have you smiled instead of grimaced when water went over your waders?

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Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, and yep.

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Nope (went to a rubber type net, no smell), yep, yep, yep, yep, yep and proud of it :slight_smile:

Larry —sagefisher—

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Let’s see - fishing the Intermountain West and Northern Rockies …

… 161 out of the last 163 months (missed August of '07 when the water was too low and warm and January of '15 when the water was too cold and hard ) …

… averaging about 130 days per year, totaling around 1750 days on freestone streams and rivers in the region …

… fishing dries, wets, nymphs, terrestrials, and streamers as conditions warrant …

… on small mountain streams to large rivers through the peak of run off …

… for browns, rainbows, cutthroat, cuttbows, brook and bull trout ( throwing in some grayling, several steelhead and a couple chinook salmon for good measure ) …

… your call.

John

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No, don’t use a net since my steelheading days.
No, if I can’t safely land a fish from where I am casting, I don’t cast. Or else I break it off. It’s just a fish.
Yes, dozens if not hundreds of days in the snow.
No, I kneel and cast from six feet farther back.
No, if I don’t get to a fish, I go on to the next one. Lots of fish.
Yes, a few times. Coldest I ever flyfished was -15F. With a wind chill of about -50F. Because I was an idiot.
No, usually I scream like a girl, because the water is COLD, otherwise I wouldn’t be wearing my waders. And I don’t wade like I used to, because, it’s just a fish.

I do sort of miss the 130-days-a-year times, tho. But not enough to do them again.

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I’m with DG.

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Yes to all.

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I don’t see the photo of the angler’s head barely above water…???

PT/TB